South Asia in 1560
This map shows the 27 states and peoples the data has for South Asia in that year.
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States and peoples in South Asia in 1560
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Tibet
- Safavid Dynasty
- Mughal Empire
- Eastern Moghulistan
- Sur Empire
- Vijayanagara Empire
- First Toungoo Empire
- Shan States
- Kashmiri Sultanate
- Tümed
- Bijapur Sultanate
- Golconda Sultanate
- Kingdom of Mrauk U
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Berar Sultanate
- Ahmadnagar Sultanate
- Portuguese Ceylon
- Nayaks of Madurai
- Bidar Sultanate
- Portuguese Empire
- Nayaks of Thanjavur
- Jaffna kingdom
- Sultanate of Aceh
- Ming Dynasty
- Lan Na Kingdom
- Ayutthaya Kingdom
- Kathmandu
New on the map since 1535
Sur Empire · Tümed
Gone from the map by 1585
Vijayanagara Empire · Shan States · Berar Sultanate · Portuguese Empire · Ming Dynasty · Lan Na Kingdom · Ayutthaya Kingdom
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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.