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Middle East & North Africa in AD 400

This map shows the 16 states and peoples the data has for Middle East & North Africa in that year.

Map of Middle East & North Africa in AD 400 with 16 states and peoples
Borders: Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0). Coarse outlines: check and adjust them for your story.

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States and peoples in Middle East & North Africa in AD 400

Largest first, by area on this map.

  • Sasanian Empire
  • Eastern Roman Empire
  • Western Roman Empire
  • Huns
  • Himyarite Kingdom
  • Lakhmid Kingdom
  • Nobatia
  • Alodia
  • Caucasian Albania
  • Kingdom of Axum
  • Xionites
  • Makuria
  • Visigoths
  • Caucasian Iberia
  • Lazica
  • Kidarites

New on the map since AD 300

Eastern Roman Empire · Western Roman Empire · Huns · Nobatia · Alodia · Xionites · Makuria · Visigoths · Kidarites

Gone from the map by AD 500

Western Roman Empire · Huns · Xionites · Visigoths · Kidarites

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Middle East & North Africa in other years

Other regions in AD 400

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.