Beta — All features are temporarily free. Send feedback

Middle East & North Africa in 1740

This map shows the 37 states and peoples the data has for Middle East & North Africa in that year.

Map of Middle East & North Africa in 1740 with 37 states and peoples
Borders: Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0). Coarse outlines: check and adjust them for your story.

Watch these borders move

Play the changes on an animated map, in your browser. Free, no account needed.

States and peoples in Middle East & North Africa in 1740

Largest first, by area on this map.

  • Ottoman Empire
  • Afsharid Iran
  • 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
  • Karamanli Dynasty
  • Khanate of Bukhara
  • Beylik of Tunis
  • Yarubid dynasty
  • Kingdom of Sardinia
  • Kazakh Khanate
  • Papal States
  • Bamana Empire
  • Kingdom of France
  • Kingdom of Imereti
  • Republic of Genoa
  • Spanish Empire
  • Portuguese Empire
  • Principality of Mingrelia
  • Habsburg Monarchy
  • Republic of Venice
  • Principality of Guria
  • New France
  • Republic of Ragusa
  • Principality of Abkhazia
  • Principality of Svaneti
  • British Colonial Empire
  • Saadi Sultanate
  • County of Urgell

New on the map since 1715

Afsharid Iran · Kingdom of Sardinia · Principality of Svaneti

Gone from the map by 1765

Afsharid Iran · Yarubid dynasty · Bamana Empire · Saadi Sultanate

Animated maps of this time

Middle East & North Africa in other years

Other regions in 1740

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.