Middle East & North Africa in 1640
This map shows the 32 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 1640
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Safavid Dynasty
- Kingdom of Spain
- Funj Sultanate
- Saadi Sultanate
- Sultanate of Darfur
- Ethiopian Empire
- Wadai Empire
- Qasimids
- Bornu Empire
- Khanate of Khiva
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Yarubid dynasty
- Catalonia
- Kazakh Khanate
- Papal States
- Kingdom of Kartli
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Republic of Venice
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Republic of Genoa
- Kingdom of France
- Spanish Empire
- Principality of Guria
- Republic of Florence
- Portuguese Empire
- Dutch Republic
- Mughal Empire
- Republic of Ragusa
- County of Urgell
- Principality of Abkhazia
New on the map since 1615
Kingdom of Spain · Wadai Empire · Qasimids · Kingdom of Portugal · Yarubid dynasty · Catalonia · Portuguese Empire · Dutch Republic
Gone from the map by 1665
Catalonia · Dutch Republic · Mughal Empire
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Other regions in 1640
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.