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Middle East & North Africa in 1710

This map shows the 36 states and peoples the data has for Middle East & North Africa in that year.

Map of Middle East & North Africa in 1710 with 36 states and peoples
Borders: Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0). Coarse outlines: check and adjust them for your story.

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States and peoples in Middle East & North Africa in 1710

Largest first, by area on this map.

  • Ottoman Empire
  • Safavid Dynasty
  • Kingdom of Spain
  • Funj Sultanate
  • Morocco
  • Regency of Algiers
  • Sultanate of Darfur
  • Ethiopian Empire
  • Wadai Empire
  • Bornu Empire
  • Qasimids
  • Khanate of Khiva
  • Kingdom of Portugal
  • Khanate of Bukhara
  • Beylik of Tunis
  • Yarubid dynasty
  • Kingdom of Georgia
  • Republic of Venice
  • Kingdom of Kakheti
  • Kazakh Khanate
  • Papal States
  • Kingdom of France
  • Kingdom of Imereti
  • Republic of Genoa
  • Spanish Empire
  • Principality of Mingrelia
  • Portuguese Empire
  • Principality of Guria
  • Republic of Florence
  • Principality of Abkhazia
  • New France
  • Republic of Ragusa
  • British Colonial Empire
  • Hotaki Dynasty
  • Saadi Sultanate
  • County of Urgell

New on the map since 1685

Regency of Algiers · Beylik of Tunis · Kingdom of Georgia · Kingdom of Kakheti · British Colonial Empire · Hotaki Dynasty

Gone from the map by 1735

Safavid Dynasty

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Middle East & North Africa in other years

Other regions in 1710

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.