Middle East & North Africa in 1540
This map shows the 34 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 1540
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Safavid Dynasty
- Kingdom of Spain
- Songhai Empire
- Funj Sultanate
- Wattasid dynasty
- Hafsid Dynasty
- Bornu Empire
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Mali Empire
- Zayyanid dynasty
- Khanate of Khiva
- Adal Sultanate
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Ethiopian Empire
- Kingdom of Georgia
- Kingdom of Kakheti
- Kazakh Khanate
- Papal States
- Republic of Venice
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Republic of Genoa
- Spanish Empire
- Portuguese Africa
- Holy Roman Empire Minor States
- Principality of Guria
- Kingdom of France
- County of Foix
- Republic of Ragusa
- Portuguese Empire
- Principality of Abkhazia
- County of Urgell
- Republic of Florence
New on the map since 1515
Kingdom of Spain · Khanate of Bukhara · Kazakh Khanate · Spanish Empire · Portuguese Empire
Gone from the map by 1565
Wattasid dynasty · Zayyanid dynasty · Adal Sultanate · Holy Roman Empire Minor States · County of Foix
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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.