Middle East & North Africa in 1885
1885 is the year the Berlin Conference ended. This map shows the 31 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 1885
Largest first, by area on this map.
- British Africa
- Ottoman Empire
- Qajar Dynasty
- Russian Empire
- French Africa
- Ottoman Tripolitania
- Kingdom of Spain
- Morocco
- British Colonial Empire
- Emirate of Afghanistan
- Emirate of Nejd
- Sokoto Caliphate
- Emirate of Jabal Shammar
- Wadai Empire
- Kingdom of Italy
- Sultanate of Oman
- Bornu Empire
- British Raj
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Ethiopian Empire
- First Hellenic Republic
- Trucial States
- Principality of Bulgaria
- French Third Republic
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Qatar Dynasty
- Montenegro
- Serbs
- Austria-Hungary
- House of Khalifa
- Principality of Andorra
New on the map since 1860
British Africa · British Colonial Empire · Emirate of Jabal Shammar · Kingdom of Italy · Principality of Bulgaria · French Third Republic · Serbs · Austria-Hungary
Gone from the map by 1910
British Colonial Empire · Sokoto Caliphate · Sultanate of Oman · Bornu Empire · Trucial States · Qatar Dynasty · House of Khalifa
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Middle East & North Africa in other years
Other regions in 1885
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.