Map of the Middle East, 1890–1891
On 1 July of every year from 1890 to 1891, IntMap’s historical map draws the same 22 names within the Middle East. The borders 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 | 1,270,000 |
| Egypt (UK) | 1,120,000 |
| Russian Empire | 548,000 |
| Emirate of Jabal Shammar | 376,000 |
| Muscat and Oman | 310,000 |
| British Raj (British India) | 280,000 |
| Aden Protectorate | 247,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 163,000 |
| Eritrea (Italy) | 122,000 |
| Afghanistan | 121,000 |
| Emirate of Nejd | 112,000 |
| Trucial States | 80,900 |
| Khanate of Khiva | 56,000 |
| British Empire | 42,700 |
| 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 |
Open the map on 1 July of
What changed since 1887–1889
Now drawn
none
No longer drawn
British Colonial Empire, British Africa, Majeerteen Sultanate
The same date elsewhere
World map · 1890 Map of Europe · 1890–1904 Map of Africa · 1890 Map of South Asia · 1888–1911 Map of East Asia · 1887–1893 Map of Southeast Asia · 1890–1893 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 · 1890–1903 Map of Oceania · 1890–1891
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.