Middle East & North Africa in 1720
This map shows the 39 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 1720
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Safavid Dynasty
- Kingdom of Spain
- Funj Sultanate
- Hotaki Dynasty
- Morocco
- Regency of Algiers
- Sultanate of Darfur
- Ethiopian Empire
- Wadai Empire
- Bornu Empire
- Qasimids
- Khanate of Khiva
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Karamanli Dynasty
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Beylik of Tunis
- Yarubid dynasty
- Kingdom of Georgia
- Kingdom of Kakheti
- Kazakh Khanate
- Papal States
- Bamana Empire
- Kingdom of France
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Republic of Genoa
- Spanish Empire
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Portuguese Empire
- Principality of Guria
- Republic of Florence
- Republic of Venice
- Principality of Abkhazia
- New France
- Republic of Ragusa
- British Colonial Empire
- Saadi Sultanate
- County of Urgell
New on the map since 1695
Hotaki Dynasty · Regency of Algiers · Karamanli Dynasty · Habsburg Monarchy · Beylik of Tunis · Kingdom of Georgia · Kingdom of Kakheti · Bamana Empire · British Colonial Empire
Gone from the map by 1745
Safavid Dynasty · Hotaki Dynasty · Yarubid dynasty · Republic of Florence · Saadi Sultanate
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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.