Middle East & North Africa in 1492
1492 is the year Columbus reached the Americas. This map shows the 42 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 1492
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Aq Qoyunlu
- Mamluk Sultanate
- Timurid Empire
- Ottoman Empire
- Songhai Empire
- Crown of Castile
- Wattasid dynasty
- Tahirid Sultanate
- Hafsid Dynasty
- Makuria Kingdom
- Crown of Aragon
- Bornu Empire
- Mali Empire
- Zayyanid dynasty
- Kazakh Khanate
- Alodia
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Ethiopian Empire
- Kingdom of Naples
- Nogai Horde
- Bahrani Dynasty
- Shirvan
- Samtskhe-Saatabago
- Beylik of Dulkadir
- Kingdom of Georgia
- Ramadanid Emirate
- Kingdom of Kakheti
- Republic of Venice
- Papal States
- County of Foix
- Adal Sultanate
- Republic of Genoa
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Kingdom of France
- Holy Roman Empire Minor States
- Principality of Guria
- Mahdids
- Republic of Ragusa
- Principality of Abkhazia
- County of Urgell
- Republic of Florence
New on the map since 1442
Songhai Empire · Wattasid dynasty · Tahirid Sultanate · Kazakh Khanate · Nogai Horde · Samtskhe-Saatabago · Kingdom of Kakheti · Kingdom of Imereti · Principality of Mingrelia · Principality of Guria · Principality of Abkhazia
Gone from the map by 1542
Aq Qoyunlu · Mamluk Sultanate · Timurid Empire · Crown of Castile · Tahirid Sultanate · Makuria Kingdom · Crown of Aragon · Alodia · Kingdom of Naples · Nogai Horde · Bahrani Dynasty · Shirvan · Samtskhe-Saatabago · Beylik of Dulkadir · Ramadanid Emirate · Mahdids
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Middle East & North Africa in other years
Other regions in 1492
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.