Map of the Middle East in 1856
On 1 July 1856, IntMap’s historical map draws 27 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 2 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 | 2,990,000 |
| Persia | 1,640,000 |
| Arabia | 1,160,000 |
| Turco-Egyptian Sudan | 1,070,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 994,000 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 417,000 |
| Russian Empire | 161,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 149,000 |
| Muhammad Ali dynasty | 136,000 |
| Emirate of Afghanistan | 121,000 |
| Egypt | 118,000 |
| Omani Empire | 117,000 |
| Sultanate of Muscat and Oman | 117,000 |
| Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra | 90,500 |
| Trucial States | 80,900 |
| Oman | 47,100 |
| Imamate of Yemen | 42,900 |
| British Empire | 38,900 |
| Khanate of Kalat | 18,700 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 8,740 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 8,120 |
| Trucial Oman | 7,050 |
| Kingdom of Greece | 6,480 |
| Shilluk Kingdom | 5,490 |
| Company Raj | 2,500 |
| Haushabi Sultanate | 1,860 |
| Majeerteen Sultanate | 55.1 |
What changed since 1855
Now drawn
Sultanate of Muscat and Oman
No longer drawn
Emirate of Kabul, Sultanate of Oman
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1856 Map of Europe · 1853–1859 Map of Africa · 1856 Map of South Asia · 1856 Map of East Asia · 1856–1858 Map of Southeast Asia · 1854–1858 Map of Central Asia · 1856–1858 Map of North America · 1854–1858 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1854–1857 Map of South America · 1853–1857 Map of Oceania · 1856
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.