Middle East & North Africa in 1789
1789 is the year the French Revolution began. This map shows the 45 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 1789
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Zand Dynasty
- Durrani Empire
- Qajar Dynasty
- Kingdom of Spain
- Funj Sultanate
- Morocco
- Khanate of Khiva
- Emirate of Diriyah
- Regency of Algiers
- Sultanate of Darfur
- Khanates of the Caucasus
- Wadai Empire
- Bornu Empire
- Qasimids
- Kingdom of Naples (Napoleonic)
- Ethiopian Empire
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Karamanli Dynasty
- Beylik of Tunis
- Sultanate of Oman
- Kingdom of Georgia
- Emirate of Bukhara
- Kingdom of Sardinia
- Kazakh Khanate
- Papal States
- Kingdom of France
- Bamana Empire
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Republic of Genoa
- Spanish Empire
- Principality of Mingrelia
- Portuguese Empire
- Habsburg Monarchy
- Republic of Venice
- Kuwait
- Principality of Guria
- Principality of Abkhazia
- Russian Empire
- New France
- Republic of Ragusa
- Principality of Svaneti
- House of Khalifa
- County of Urgell
- British Colonial Empire
New on the map since 1764
Qajar Dynasty · Emirate of Bukhara · Bamana Empire · Russian Empire · House of Khalifa
Gone from the map by 1814
Zand Dynasty · Khanates of the Caucasus · Qasimids · Kingdom of Georgia · Kingdom of France · Kingdom of Imereti · Republic of Genoa · Principality of Mingrelia · Habsburg Monarchy · Republic of Venice · New France · Republic of Ragusa · County of Urgell · British Colonial Empire
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Middle East & North Africa in other years
Other regions in 1789
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.