Map of the Middle East in 1886
On 1 July 1886, IntMap’s historical map draws 26 names within the Middle East. The borders for this date come from CShapes 2.0 (day by day), then OpenHistoricalMap (day by day), then Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year) — 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 | 2,140,000 |
| Persia | 1,620,000 |
| Mahdist State | 1,260,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 1,120,000 |
| Russian Empire | 548,000 |
| Muscat and Oman | 310,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 280,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 266,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 247,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 222,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 138,000 |
| Afghanistan | 121,000 |
| Trucial States | 80,900 |
| British Empire | 71,700 |
| Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra | 68,500 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 56,000 |
| British Colonial Empire | 40,900 |
| British Africa | 30,000 |
| Eritrea (Italy) | 19,300 |
| Emirate of Bukhara | 7,620 |
| French Somaliland (France) | 7,300 |
| Sultanate of Lahej | 5,980 |
| Bulgaria | 2,840 |
| Protectorate of Bahrain | 2,180 |
| Greece | 1,010 |
| Majeerteen Sultanate | 55.6 |
What changed since 1885
Now drawn
Egypt (UK), Muscat and Oman, Afghanistan, Khanate of Khiva, Eritrea (Italy), French Somaliland (France), Bulgaria, Greece
No longer drawn
Arabia, Emirate of Afghanistan, Protectorate of Afghanistan, Egypt, Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, Sultanate of Oman, Khanate of Khiva (1873-1920), Cyprus Protectorate, Obock and Protectorates of the Somali Coast and Dankils Countries, Trucial Oman, Kingdom of Greece, Haushabi Sultanate, Alawi Sheikhdom
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1886 Map of Europe · 1886–1889 Map of Africa · 1886 Map of South Asia · 1886 Map of East Asia · 1886 Map of Southeast Asia · 1886 Map of Central Asia · 1886–1911 Map of North America · 1886–1893 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1886–1898 Map of South America · 1886–1889 Map of Oceania · 1886–1888
Source and method
Borders and names: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 + OpenHistoricalMap (openhistoricalmap.org) · CC0 1.0 · adapted by IntMap: the admin_level=2 relations in force from 1886, less the ground CShapes states on its own dates + 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.
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.