Middle East & North Africa in AD 700
This map shows the 17 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 700
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Umayyad Caliphate
- Byzantine Empire
- Visigothic Kingdom
- Makuria
- Alodia
- Kingdom of Axum
- Kingdom of Italy
- Dabuyid Dynasty
- Khazaria
- Principality of Iberia
- Turks
- Aquitaine
- Turk Shahis
- Kingdom of Lazica
- Cyprus Condominium
- Avar Khaganate
- First Bulgarian Empire
New on the map since AD 600
Umayyad Caliphate · Byzantine Empire · Dabuyid Dynasty · Khazaria · Principality of Iberia · Turks · Aquitaine · Kingdom of Lazica · Cyprus Condominium · Avar Khaganate · First Bulgarian Empire
Gone from the map by AD 800
Umayyad Caliphate · Visigothic Kingdom · Kingdom of Italy · Dabuyid Dynasty · Principality of Iberia · Turks · Aquitaine · Kingdom of Lazica · Avar Khaganate
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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.