Middle East & North Africa in 1620
This map shows the 26 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 1620
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Safavid Dynasty
- Iberian Union
- Funj Sultanate
- Saadi Sultanate
- Sultanate of Darfur
- Bornu Empire
- Ethiopian Empire
- Khanate of Khiva
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Kazakh Khanate
- Papal States
- Kingdom of Kartli
- Spanish Empire
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Republic of Venice
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Republic of Genoa
- Kingdom of France
- Principality of Guria
- Republic of Florence
- Mughal Empire
- Republic of Ragusa
- Dutch Republic
- County of Urgell
- Principality of Abkhazia
New on the map since 1595
Sultanate of Darfur · Kingdom of Kartli · Kingdom of Imereti · Principality of Mingrelia · Principality of Guria · Dutch Republic · Principality of Abkhazia
Gone from the map by 1645
Iberian Union
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Other regions in 1620
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.