Middle East & North Africa in AD 800
This map shows the 25 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 800
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Byzantine Empire
- Rustamid dynasty
- Emirate of Córdoba
- Aghlabid Dynasty
- Idrisids
- Makuria
- Ghana Empire
- Alodia
- Oghuz Turks
- Kingdom of Axum
- Kingdom of the Franks
- Kingdom of Asturias
- Duchy of Benevento
- Khazaria
- Barghawata Conference
- First Bulgarian Empire
- Turk Shahis
- Georgia
- Papal States
- Duchy of Gascony
- Principality of Serbia
- Cyprus Condominium
- Emirate of Nekor
- Duchy of Naples
New on the map since AD 700
Abbasid Caliphate · Rustamid dynasty · Emirate of Córdoba · Aghlabid Dynasty · Idrisids · Ghana Empire · Oghuz Turks · Kingdom of the Franks · Kingdom of Asturias · Duchy of Benevento · Barghawata Conference · Georgia · Papal States · Duchy of Gascony · Principality of Serbia · Emirate of Nekor · Duchy of Naples
Gone from the map by AD 900
Kingdom of the Franks · Turk Shahis · Duchy of Gascony
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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.