Map of the Middle East, 1828–1829

On 1 July of every year from 1828 to 1829, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 27 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 3 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 Empire3,000,000
Persia1,640,000
Turco-Egyptian Sudan1,070,000
Emirate of Nejd492,000
Nejd410,000
Khanate of Khiva404,000
Russian Empire154,000
Muhammad Ali dynasty136,000
Ethiopian Empire123,000
Emirate of Kabul121,000
Omani Empire118,000
Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra90,500
Trucial States80,900
Imamate of Yemen42,900
Egypt35,600
Bahrain33,600
Talpur Dynasty19,700
Khanate of Kalat18,700
Yemen15,800
Kazakh Khanate13,100
Ethiopia11,500
Oman11,300
Sultanate of Lahej9,630
Emirate of Bukhara8,740
Shilluk Kingdom5,490
Haushabi Sultanate1,860
Majeerteen Sultanate55.1

Open the map on 1 July of

1828 1829

What changed since 1825–1827

Now drawn

none

No longer drawn

Emirate of Jabal Shammar

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1828 Map of Europe · 1828–1829 Map of Africa · 1828–1829 Map of South Asia · 1828–1832 Map of East Asia · 1828–1829 Map of Southeast Asia · 1825–1829 Map of Central Asia · 1828–1839 Map of North America · 1825–1832 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1825–1828 Map of South America · 1826–1828 Map of Oceania · 1826–1828

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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