Middle East & North Africa in 1590
This map shows the 21 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 1590
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Safavid Dynasty
- Iberian Union
- Songhai Empire
- Saadi Sultanate
- Funj Sultanate
- Bornu Empire
- Ethiopian Empire
- Khanate of Khiva
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Mali Empire
- Kazakh Khanate
- Papal States
- Spanish Empire
- Republic of Venice
- Republic of Genoa
- Republic of Florence
- Kingdom of France
- House of Bourbon
- Republic of Ragusa
- County of Urgell
New on the map since 1565
Iberian Union
Gone from the map by 1615
Songhai Empire · Mali Empire · House of Bourbon
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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.