Map of the Middle East in 1839

On 1 July 1839, IntMap’s historical map draws 29 names within the Middle East. The borders for this date 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 Empire2,800,000
Persia1,640,000
Turco-Egyptian Sudan1,070,000
Emirate of Nejd525,000
Nejd410,000
Khanate of Khiva404,000
Muhammad Ali dynasty326,000
Russian Empire161,000
Ethiopian Empire123,000
Emirate of Kabul121,000
Omani Empire118,000
Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra90,500
Trucial States80,900
Sultanate of Oman68,900
Imamate of Yemen42,900
Egypt35,600
Talpur Dynasty19,700
Khanate of Kalat18,700
Yemen15,800
Kazakh Khanate13,100
Ethiopia11,500
Oman11,300
Emirate of Bukhara8,740
Sultanate of Lahej8,120
Kingdom of Greece6,480
Shilluk Kingdom5,490
Company Raj2,500
Haushabi Sultanate1,860
Majeerteen Sultanate55.1

What changed since 1832–1838

Now drawn

Company Raj

No longer drawn

none

The same date elsewhere

World map · 1839 Map of Europe · 1839–1840 Map of Africa · 1839 Map of South Asia · 1834–1839 Map of East Asia · 1839 Map of Southeast Asia · 1839 Map of Central Asia · 1828–1839 Map of North America · 1836–1839 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1839 Map of South America · 1837–1839 Map of Oceania · 1839

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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