Map of the Middle East, 1708–1712
On 1 July of every year from 1708 to 1712, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 24 names within the Middle East. The borders come from OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent. The map also draws 4 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.
| Name | Drawn area in view (km²) |
|---|---|
| Ottoman Empire | 3,070,000 |
| Safavid Dynasty | 1,990,000 |
| Funj Sultanate | 540,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 226,000 |
| Ethiopia | 216,000 |
| Safavid Empire | 171,000 |
| Sultanate of Darfur | 129,000 |
| Mughal Empire | 121,000 |
| Omani Empire | 118,000 |
| Qasimids | 107,000 |
| Khiva Khanate | 101,000 |
| Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra | 90,500 |
| Darfur | 72,400 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 57,700 |
| Egypt | 35,600 |
| Khanate of Kalat | 18,700 |
| Kingdom of Kakheti | 16,700 |
| Kazakh Khanate | 13,100 |
| Yemen | 12,500 |
| Awsa | 9,690 |
| Khanate of Bukhara | 8,740 |
| Shilluk Kingdom | 5,490 |
| Kingdom of Imereti | 2,290 |
| Majeerteen Sultanate | 55.1 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1706–1707
Now drawn
Safavid Empire, Egypt, Yemen
No longer drawn
Hadramaut, Gharra, Mahra
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1708 Map of Europe · 1708 Map of Africa · 1708–1712 Map of South Asia · 1708 Map of East Asia · 1707–1708 Map of Southeast Asia · 1708 Map of Central Asia · 1706–1708 Map of North America · 1708–1709 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1708–1709 Map of South America · 1708–1709 Map of Oceania · 1708–1709
Source and method
Borders and names: OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 + 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.