Map of the Middle East in 1600

For 1600, IntMap draws the Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent map of that year: 19 names within the Middle East. The map also draws 5 outlines here that the source gives no name.

Names on the map

As the map labels them, largest first by the area of the outline drawn inside this view. Areas are of the drawn outline, rounded, and approximate.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Ottoman Empire3,690,000
Safavid Dynasty1,750,000
Funj Sultanate549,000
Ethiopian Empire190,000
Darfur172,000
Hadramaut115,000
Mahra114,000
Khiva Khanate110,000
Gharra93,700
Ethiopia55,300
Khanate of Khiva42,600
Oman36,000
Spanish Empire10,500
Khanate of Bukhara10,300
Iberian Union5,340
Safavid Empire4,390
Republic of Venice3,020
Republic of Genoa1,350
Islamic and Hindu states (a description by the source, not a name)121

What changed since 1530

Now drawn

Spanish Empire, Iberian Union

No longer drawn

Portuguese Empire, Kingdom of Portugal, Shirvan, Adal Sultanate, Kingdom of Kakheti, Adal, Astrakhan Khanate, Portuguese Africa, Principality of Guria, Kingdom of Imereti

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1600 Map of Europe · 1600 Map of Africa · 1600 Map of South Asia · 1600 Map of East Asia · 1600 Map of Southeast Asia · 1600 Map of Central Asia · 1600 Map of North America · 1600 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1600 Map of South America · 1600 Map of Oceania · 1600

Source and method

Borders and names: Cliopatria v0.2.1 (Seshat Global History Databank, github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria) · CC BY 4.0 · adapted by IntMap: simplified, BC years made astronomical, and the ground OpenHistoricalMap (1689–1885, and from 1886 where CShapes is silent) and CShapes (1886–2019) state removed on their own dates + aourednik/historical-basemaps (github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps) · GPL-3.0 · adapted by IntMap: each sheet before 1886 less the ground OpenHistoricalMap and Cliopatria state at that sheet's year.

Listed: every name whose outline IntMap draws inside 25°E–63°E, 12°N–42°N on this date, with the name the map writes on it. The list is worked out when the site is built, from the same records and the same code the map uses, so it says what the map shows — not more. Names are the source’s own, translated where the source or IntMap’s name table has a translation.

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