Map of the Middle East, 1789–1791

On 1 July of every year from 1789 to 1791, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 28 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.

NameDrawn area in view (km²)
Ottoman Empire3,110,000
Afsharid Empire2,330,000
Qajar Iran1,800,000
Nejd564,000
Funj Sultanate541,000
Emirate of Diriyah275,000
Funj193,000
Sultanate of Darfur129,000
Ethiopian Empire123,000
Omani Empire118,000
Qasimids94,600
Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra90,500
Awsa82,100
Darfur72,400
central Asian khanates71,000
Khanate of Khiva62,000
Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti37,200
Ethiopia33,200
Khanate of Kalat18,700
Yemen15,800
Kazakh Khanate13,100
Oman11,300
Sultanate of Lahej9,630
Emirate of Bukhara8,740
Shilluk Kingdom5,490
Kingdom of Imereti2,290
Haushabi Sultanate1,860
Majeerteen Sultanate55.1

Open the map on 1 July of

1789 1790 1791

What changed since 1785–1788

Now drawn

Qajar Iran

No longer drawn

none

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1789 Map of Europe · 1789 Map of Africa · 1789–1790 Map of South Asia · 1789 Map of East Asia · 1788–1791 Map of Southeast Asia · 1789–1792 Map of Central Asia · 1789–1796 Map of North America · 1788–1790 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1788–1790 Map of South America · 1789–1792 Map of Oceania · 1788–1790

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.

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