World map in 1279
For 1279, IntMap draws the Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent map of that year: 227 names within the world. The map also draws 96 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) |
|---|---|
| Mongol Empire | 27,400,000 |
| Bantou | 8,450,000 |
| Siberians | 7,650,000 |
| Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | 7,600,000 |
| Touareg | 4,280,000 |
| West African cereal farmers (a description by the source, not a name) | 4,190,000 |
| Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | 3,540,000 |
| Amazon hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | 3,200,000 |
| Savanna hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | 3,040,000 |
| Plain bison hunters (a description by the source, not a name) | 2,620,000 |
| Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | 2,500,000 |
| Khoiasan | 2,490,000 |
| Thule | 2,380,000 |
| Pampas cultures (a description by the source, not a name) | 1,830,000 |
| Mamluk Sultanate | 1,680,000 |
| Mamluk Dynasty | 1,350,000 |
| Delhi Sultanate | 1,350,000 |
| Athabaskan | 1,200,000 |
| Mali Empire | 977,000 |
| Holy Roman Empire | 975,000 |
| Mali | 798,000 |
| Khanate of the Golden Horde | 777,000 |
| Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | 677,000 |
| Kingdom of France | 656,000 |
| minor Hindu kingdoms (a description by the source, not a name) | 519,000 |
| Khmer Empire | 519,000 |
| Holy Roman Empire Minor States | 517,000 |
| Novgorod | 495,000 |
| Dorset | 493,000 |
| Sámi | 490,000 |
| Yadava Dynasty | 486,000 |
| Srivijaya | 462,000 |
| Andean hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | 447,000 |
| Pagan Kingdom | 441,000 |
| Old Kingdom of Norway | 440,000 |
| Desert hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | 436,000 |
| North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples | 435,000 |
| Madagascar | 431,000 |
| Kingdom of England | 428,000 |
| Andean states and chiefdoms (a description by the source, not a name) | 427,000 |
| Aymara kingdoms | 389,000 |
| Rasulid Dynasty | 380,000 |
| Bornu-Kanem | 368,000 |
| Crown of Castile | 354,000 |
| Hafsid Caliphate | 351,000 |
| Kingdom of Hungary | 348,000 |
| Islamic city-states (a description by the source, not a name) | 335,000 |
| Kamakura Shogunate | 322,000 |
| Caribbean hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | 316,000 |
| Kakatiya Dynasty | 299,000 |
| Sultanate of Delhi | 295,000 |
| Byzantine Empire | 278,000 |
| Pagan | 275,000 |
| Sukhothai Kingdom | 273,000 |
| Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters (a description by the source, not a name) | 259,000 |
| Maori | 250,000 |
| Duchies of Poland | 236,000 |
| Hafsid Dynasty | 226,000 |
| Innu | 220,000 |
| Pandya Empire | 219,000 |
| Great Zimbabwe | 214,000 |
| Ethiopian Empire | 210,000 |
| Eastern Ganga Kingdom | 207,000 |
| Kingdom of Denmark | 202,000 |
| Mamluke Sultanate | 197,000 |
| Hadramaut | 188,000 |
| Ethiopia | 187,000 |
| Ilkhanate | 183,000 |
| Kingdom of Sweden | 182,000 |
| Sweden | 180,000 |
| Makkura | 180,000 |
| Srivijaya Empire | 178,000 |
| Taino | 172,000 |
| Alwa | 164,000 |
| Kingdom of Bohemia | 161,000 |
| Ainus | 159,000 |
| Expansionist Kingdom of Merina | 149,000 |
| Later Mayan City-States | 136,000 |
| Norway | 134,000 |
| Tibet | 133,000 |
| Zayyanid dynasty | 126,000 |
| Alodia | 124,000 |
| Chámpa | 124,000 |
| Teutonic Order | 112,000 |
| Benin | 108,000 |
| Beothuk | 102,000 |
| Great Khanate | 98,500 |
| Principality of Minsk | 98,300 |
| Second Bulgarian Empire | 96,300 |
| Sicily | 94,400 |
| Zapotec Empire | 92,200 |
| Kingdom of Portugal | 91,800 |
| Crown of Aragon | 91,600 |
| Grand Duchy of Lithuania | 90,700 |
| Kingdom of Alba | 85,300 |
| Mahdids | 84,700 |
| Aceh | 83,200 |
| Chandela Kingdom | 80,700 |
| House of Habsburg | 79,400 |
| Chimú Empire | 75,000 |
| Bahrani Dynasty | 74,300 |
| Singhasari | 74,300 |
| Kingdom of Serbia | 73,700 |
| Ceylon | 69,000 |
| Mixtec Empire | 68,300 |
| Sunda Kingdom | 62,700 |
| Tasmanian hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | 59,400 |
| Caloosahatchee cultureure | 59,100 |
| Hoysala Kingdom | 57,000 |
| Haripuñjaya | 55,000 |
| English territory | 52,300 |
| Capetian House of Anjou | 49,400 |
| Shoa | 48,700 |
| Viking settlements | 47,200 |
| Papal States | 46,300 |
| Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia | 43,700 |
| Lavo Kingdom | 42,900 |
| Margraviate of Brandenburg | 41,300 |
| Duchy of Brittany | 37,400 |
| Muscat | 36,000 |
| Duchy of Bavaria | 35,200 |
| Chagatai Khanate | 33,700 |
| Emirate of Granada | 31,400 |
| House of Anjou-Sicily | 31,300 |
| Duchy of Masovia | 31,200 |
| Duchy of Sandomierz | 30,600 |
| County of Flanders | 29,100 |
| House of Ascania | 28,600 |
| Teutonic Knights | 28,500 |
| Republic of Pisa | 27,800 |
| Grand Duchy of Kraków | 26,700 |
| Sukhothai | 26,000 |
| Duchy of Greater Poland | 25,700 |
| County of Champagne | 25,300 |
| Tuʻi Tonga Empire | 24,200 |
| Guanahatabeyes | 21,800 |
| Kingdom of Arles | 20,800 |
| Despotate of Epirus | 20,400 |
| Empire of Kanem | 20,200 |
| Maya city-states (a description by the source, not a name) | 19,800 |
| County of Auvergne | 19,400 |
| Banate of Bosnia | 19,300 |
| Duchy of Silesia | 19,100 |
| House of Wittelsbach | 17,700 |
| Republic of Venice | 17,700 |
| Kashmir and Ladakh | 17,000 |
| Shuar | 16,500 |
| Chola state (a description by the source, not a name) | 15,200 |
| County of Savoy | 15,000 |
| Empire of Trebizond | 14,900 |
| Republic of Genoa | 14,600 |
| Kingdom of Gwynedd | 14,500 |
| Brythonic Kingdoms | 14,500 |
| Polynesians | 14,500 |
| Thessaly | 14,400 |
| Sultanate of Kedah | 13,300 |
| Bulgar Khanate | 13,300 |
| Kingdom of Majorca | 12,600 |
| Duchy of Opole | 12,200 |
| County of Brabant | 11,900 |
| Kingdom of Cyprus | 11,500 |
| Republic of Florence | 10,100 |
| County of Touraine | 10,100 |
| Kingdom of Navarre | 10,000 |
| Abdelouadides | 9,560 |
| Duchy of Aquitaine | 9,560 |
| Dauphiné | 9,260 |
| Guanches | 9,080 |
| Patriarchate of Aquileia | 8,990 |
| Samudera Pasai Sultanate | 8,900 |
| Puebloans - Aztec Regional System | 8,740 |
| County of Périgord | 8,570 |
| County of Holland | 8,470 |
| Duchy of Athens | 8,360 |
| County of Blôis | 8,060 |
| County of Artois | 7,560 |
| Seljuk Caliphate | 7,180 |
| France | 7,070 |
| County of Armagnac | 6,970 |
| Venice | 6,970 |
| Chimu Empire | 6,930 |
| House of Luxembourg | 5,790 |
| Aragón | 5,360 |
| Kingdom of Dambadeniya | 5,240 |
| Ryazan | 5,140 |
| County of Foix | 4,580 |
| Hungary | 4,480 |
| Giudicato of Arborea | 3,880 |
| Serbia | 3,800 |
| Arawaks | 3,440 |
| Castile | 3,390 |
| Duchy of Głogów | 2,940 |
| Texcoco | 2,640 |
| Duchy of Legnica | 2,360 |
| Granada | 2,210 |
| Denmark | 2,180 |
| Kingdom of Jerusalem | 2,110 |
| Comtat Venaissin | 2,100 |
| Đại Việt | 1,470 |
| Merinides | 1,270 |
| Pandya state (a description by the source, not a name) | 1,270 |
| Duchy of the Archipelago | 1,240 |
| Duchy of Jawor | 1,090 |
| Shogun Japan (Kamakura) | 1,050 |
| Trebizond | 1,010 |
| Namayan | 878 |
| Orissa | 868 |
| Corsica | 859 |
| County of Ampuria | 832 |
| Scotland | 720 |
| Kathmandu | 664 |
| Kingdom of Sicily | 565 |
| Navarre | 529 |
| County of Tripoli | 455 |
| Georgia | 387 |
| County of Urgell | 379 |
| Luva | 302 |
| Duchy of Styria | 276 |
| Yemen | 238 |
| Hainan | 217 |
| Lithuania | 195 |
| Portugal | 184 |
| Principality of Orange | 140 |
| Cyprus | 45.4 |
| Britany | 31.4 |
| Poland | 28.5 |
| Sardinia | 27.5 |
What changed since 1200
Now drawn
Mongol Empire, Siberians, Touareg, Mamluk Sultanate, Mamluk Dynasty, Delhi Sultanate, Mali Empire, Khanate of the Golden Horde, minor Hindu kingdoms, Holy Roman Empire Minor States, Novgorod, Andean states and chiefdoms, Aymara kingdoms, Rasulid Dynasty, Bornu-Kanem, Crown of Castile, Hafsid Caliphate, Pagan, Sukhothai Kingdom, Maori, Hafsid Dynasty, Pandya Empire, Ethiopian Empire, Mamluke Sultanate, Ethiopia, Ilkhanate, Kingdom of Bohemia, Ainus, Zayyanid dynasty, Teutonic Order, Benin, Great Khanate, Sicily, Zapotec Empire, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Aceh, House of Habsburg, Bahrani Dynasty, Singhasari, Ceylon, Mixtec Empire, English territory, Capetian House of Anjou, Shoa, Lavo Kingdom, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Duchy of Brittany, Duchy of Bavaria, Chagatai Khanate, Emirate of Granada, House of Anjou-Sicily, Duchy of Masovia, House of Ascania, Teutonic Knights, Grand Duchy of Kraków, Sukhothai, Despotate of Epirus, County of Auvergne, House of Wittelsbach, Kashmir and Ladakh, Shuar, County of Savoy, Empire of Trebizond, Thessaly, Kingdom of Majorca, County of Brabant, Republic of Florence, County of Touraine, Abdelouadides, Duchy of Aquitaine, Dauphiné, Patriarchate of Aquileia, Samudera Pasai Sultanate, County of Périgord, County of Holland, Duchy of Athens, County of Artois, Seljuk Caliphate, France, County of Armagnac, House of Luxembourg, Kingdom of Dambadeniya, Ryazan, County of Foix, Hungary, Serbia, Castile, Duchy of Głogów, Texcoco, Duchy of Legnica, Granada, Comtat Venaissin, Merinides, Pandya state, Duchy of the Archipelago, Duchy of Jawor, Shogun Japan (Kamakura), Trebizond, Namayan, Orissa, Kathmandu, Luva, Duchy of Styria, Lithuania, Principality of Orange
No longer drawn
Tuareg Nomadic Tribes, Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers, Arctic marine mammal hunters, Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers, Kimek-Kipchak confederation, Kara-Khitans, Berber Tribes, Ghurid Dynasty, Great Jin, Southern Song, Ayyubid Sultanate, Tibetans, Kievan Rus', Almohad Caliphate, Great Seljuk Empire, Tungusic Tribes, Kara Khitai Khaganate, Ifat, Malays, Papuans, Novgorod Republic, Khwarezmid Dynasty, Western Xia, Angevin Empire, Huari Empire, Yenisei Kyrgyz, Halych-Volhynia occupation, Mesoamerican city-states and chiefdoms, Cuman Khanates, Kingdom of Dali, Rajput Kingdoms, Sultanate of Rum, Song Empire, Sena Dynasty, Principality of Rostov-Suzdal, Chaulukya Dynasty, Lohara Dynasty, Sind-Habbari Dynasty, Gahadavala Dynasty, Makuria, Kanem, Ghana Empire, Principality of Chernigov, Chola Empire, Volga Bulgars, Paramara Dynasty, Ainu, Chauhan Dynasty, Principality of Smolensk, Bagan, Goryeo, Kingdom of Georgia, Kashmir, minor Hindu and Buddhist states, Kingdom of León, Takrur, East Java, Ibadites, Icelandic Commonwealth, Kingdom of Castile, Principality of Halych, Ghana, Principality of Pereyaslavl, Xixia, Toltec Empire, Principality of Volhynia, Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal, Principality of Kiev, Bhutan, Uyunid Emirate, Kingdom of Polonnaruwa, Kediri Kingdom, Nepal, Principality of Turov and Pinsk, Principality of Ryazan, Celtic kingdoms, Harapunchai, County of Toulouse, Volga Bulgaria, Shirvan, Taiwanese Tribes, Norse Greenland, Principality of Jersika, Principality of Drutsk, County of Vermandois, Zagwe dynasty, Mon state, County of Nevers, Pyu state, County of Berga, Giudicato of Logudoro, Early Balinese Kingdoms, Brythons, Duchy of Kuyavia, Kingdom of Mann, Duchy of Wrocław, Comté de Toulouse, Classic Veracruz Culture, Principality of Antioch, Giudicato of Gallura, Croatia, Kingdom of Powys Wenwynwyn, County of Pallars Sobirà, León, Shunten Dynasty, Principality of Koknese, Tamna, Kingdom of Powys Fadog, Principality of Galicia-Volhynia, Imperial Japan (Fujiwara), Burgandy, County of Boulogne, Castilla, Kwarizm-Shah, Champa City States, Other Rus Principalities, Armenia
The same date elsewhere
Map of Europe · 1279 Map of the Middle East · 1279 Map of Africa · 1279 Map of South Asia · 1279 Map of East Asia · 1279 Map of Southeast Asia · 1279 Map of Central Asia · 1279 Map of North America · 1279 Map of Central America and the Caribbean · 1279 Map of South America · 1279 Map of Oceania · 1279
Source and method
Borders and names: 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 180°W–180°E, 90°S–90°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.