Middle East & North Africa in 1850
This map shows the 38 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 1850
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Ottoman Empire
- Qajar Dynasty
- Muhammad Ali dynasty
- Ottoman Tripolitania
- Khanate of Khiva
- Kingdom of Spain
- Emirate of Nejd
- Morocco
- Emirate of Afghanistan
- Russian Empire
- French Africa
- Sokoto Caliphate
- Sultanate of Darfur
- Wadai Empire
- Sultanate of Oman
- Bornu Empire
- British Empire
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
- Ethiopian Empire
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Beylik of Tunis
- Massina Empire
- Imamate of Yemen
- Trucial States
- First Hellenic Republic
- Caucasian Imamate
- Emirate of Bukhara
- Kingdom of Sardinia
- Papal States
- French Second Republic
- Qatar Dynasty
- Austrian Empire
- Spanish Empire
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Kuwait
- British Cape Colony
- House of Khalifa
- Principality of Andorra
New on the map since 1825
Ottoman Tripolitania · Emirate of Afghanistan · French Africa · British Empire · Caucasian Imamate · French Second Republic
Gone from the map by 1875
Muhammad Ali dynasty · Khanate of Khiva · Kingdom of Spain · British Empire · Kingdom of the Two Sicilies · Massina Empire · Imamate of Yemen · Caucasian Imamate · Emirate of Bukhara · Kingdom of Sardinia · Papal States · French Second Republic · Austrian Empire · Spanish Empire · Kuwait
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Other regions in 1850
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.