Middle East & North Africa in 1820
This map shows the 42 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 1820
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Qajar Dynasty
- Muhammad Ali dynasty
- Khanate of Khiva
- Kingdom of Spain
- Funj Sultanate
- Morocco
- Durrani Empire
- Regency of Algiers
- Sultanate of Darfur
- Russian Empire
- Wadai Empire
- Emirate of Bukhara
- Sokoto Caliphate
- Bornu Empire
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
- Ethiopian Empire
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Beylik of Tunis
- Imamate of Yemen
- Karamanli Dynasty
- Sultanate of Oman
- Trucial States
- Bahrain
- Massina Empire
- Kingdom of Sardinia
- Bourbon Kingdom of France
- Papal States
- Qatar Dynasty
- Austrian Empire
- Bamana Empire
- Spanish Empire
- Portuguese Empire
- Kuwait
- Principality of Guria
- Principality of Abkhazia
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- British Cape Colony
- Kazakh Khanate
- Principality of Svaneti
- House of Khalifa
- Principality of Andorra
New on the map since 1795
Muhammad Ali dynasty · Sokoto Caliphate · Kingdom of the Two Sicilies · Imamate of Yemen · Trucial States · Bahrain · Massina Empire · Bourbon Kingdom of France · Qatar Dynasty · Austrian Empire · British Cape Colony · Principality of Andorra
Gone from the map by 1845
Funj Sultanate · Durrani Empire · Karamanli Dynasty · Bamana Empire · Portuguese Empire · Principality of Guria · Principality of Abkhazia · Principality of Svaneti
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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.