Middle East & North Africa in AD 500
This map shows the 16 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 AD 500
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Sasanian Empire
- Eastern Roman Empire
- White Huns
- Visigothic Kingdom
- Vandal Kingdom
- Himyarite Kingdom
- Lakhmid Kingdom
- Ostrogothic Kingdom
- Nobatia
- Alodia
- Caucasian Albania
- Kingdom of the Suebi
- Kingdom of Axum
- Makuria
- Caucasian Iberia
- Lazica
New on the map since AD 400
White Huns · Visigothic Kingdom · Vandal Kingdom · Ostrogothic Kingdom · Kingdom of the Suebi
Gone from the map by AD 600
White Huns · Vandal Kingdom · Ostrogothic Kingdom · Caucasian Albania · Kingdom of the Suebi · Caucasian Iberia · Lazica
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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.