Middle East & North Africa in 1250
This map shows the 48 states and peoples the data has for Middle East & North Africa in that year.
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States and peoples in Middle East & North Africa in 1250
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Mongol Empire
- Mamluk Sultanate
- Mali Empire
- Marinid Sultanate
- Crown of Castile
- Rasulid Dynasty
- Nicaean Empire
- Hafsid Dynasty
- Sultanate of Rum
- Makuria
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Zayyanid dynasty
- Crown of Aragon
- Zengid dynasty
- Kingdom of Sicily
- Alodia
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Mahdids
- Despotate of Epirus
- Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
- Hamdanid Emirates
- Second Bulgarian Empire
- Kingdom of Serbia
- Emirate of Granada
- Republic of Pisa
- Principality of Achaea
- Papal States
- Empire of Trebizond
- Republic of Venice
- Holy Roman Empire
- Zagwe dynasty
- Kingdom of Jerusalem
- Kingdom of Cyprus
- Duchy of Athens
- Empire of Kanem
- Giudicato of Logudoro
- Kingdom of Navarre
- Principality of Antioch
- Kingdom of England
- Giudicato of Arborea
- County of Tripoli
- Latin Empire
- Kingdom of France
- County of Foix
- Republic of Genoa
- Almohad Caliphate
- County of Ampuria
- Duchy of the Archipelago
New on the map since 1200
Mongol Empire · Mamluk Sultanate · Mali Empire · Marinid Sultanate · Crown of Castile · Rasulid Dynasty · Nicaean Empire · Hafsid Dynasty · Abbasid Caliphate · Zayyanid dynasty · Zengid dynasty · Despotate of Epirus · Emirate of Granada · Principality of Achaea · Empire of Trebizond · Republic of Venice · Duchy of Athens · Kingdom of England · Latin Empire · Kingdom of France · County of Foix · Republic of Genoa · Duchy of the Archipelago
Gone from the map by 1300
Mongol Empire · Marinid Sultanate · Nicaean Empire · Sultanate of Rum · Abbasid Caliphate · Zengid dynasty · Kingdom of Sicily · Hamdanid Emirates · Holy Roman Empire · Zagwe dynasty · Kingdom of Jerusalem · Giudicato of Logudoro · Kingdom of Navarre · Principality of Antioch · County of Tripoli · Latin Empire
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The outlines are coarse and follow the Cliopatria dataset: borders before modern surveys are estimates, and a blank area means the data has no state on record there, not that nobody lived there. A state that changed hands during the year can appear together with its successor.