Historical world map · 1300

World map in 1300

A medieval reconstruction of kingdoms, empires, and overlapping regional authority. This sourced reconstruction contains 237 mapped geometries. 113 carry usable source labels; 122 are unlabeled in the original data.

Mapped shapes
237
Named labels
113
Geometry points
27,676
Data source
Historical Basemaps borders

Interactive world map for 1300

Primary view
1,300 CE
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1,300 CE
123,000 BC2,023 CE

Named in the source

States, realms, and regions mapped in 1300

Usable source labels can mix states, empires, dependencies, cultural regions, and other mapped entities. Wording follows the dataset rather than forcing every shape into a modern-country category.

Named labels
113
Unlabeled shapes
122
  • Aceh
  • Ainus
  • Alwa
  • Amazon hunter-gatherers
  • Andean hunter-gatherers
  • Andean states and chiefdoms
  • Aragón
  • Arawaks
  • Athabaskan
  • Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers
  • Aymara kingdoms
  • Bantou
  • Benin
  • Beothuk
  • Bornu-Kanem
  • Britany
  • Bulgar Khanate
  • Byzantine Empire
  • Caloosahatchee cultureure
  • Caribbean hunter-gatherers
  • Castile
  • Chagatai Khanate
  • Champa
  • Chimú Empire
  • Chola state
  • Corsica
  • Cyprus
  • Đại Việt
  • Denmark
  • Desert hunter-gatherers
  • Dorset
  • Eastern North Amercian hunter-gatherers
  • English territory
  • Ethiopia
  • Expansionist Kingdom of Merina
  • France
  • Georgia
  • Granada
  • Grand Duchy of Moscow
  • Great Khanate
  • Great Zimbabwe
  • Guanahatabeyes
  • Guanches
  • Hadramaut
  • Hafsid Caliphate
  • Hainan
  • Holy Roman Empire
  • Hungary
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  • Ilkhanate
  • Innu
  • Islamic city-states
  • Kashmir and Ladakh
  • Kediri
  • Khanate of the Golden Horde
  • Khmer Empire
  • Khoiasan
  • Lithuania
  • Luva
  • Madagascar
  • Makkura
  • Mali
  • Mamluke Sultanate
  • Maori
  • Maya city-states
  • minor Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms
  • minor Hindu kingdoms
  • Mixtec Empire
  • Morocco
  • Muscat
  • Navarre
  • North American Pacifi foraging, hunting and fishing peoples
  • Norway
  • Novgorod
  • Orissa
  • Pagan
  • Pampas cultures
  • Pandya state
  • Papal States
  • Patagonian shellfish and marine mammal hunters
  • Plain bison hunters
  • Plateau fichers and hunter gatherers
  • Poland
  • Polynesians
  • Portugal
  • Raška
  • Ryazan
  • Samis
  • Sardinia
  • Savanna hunter-gatherers
  • Scotland
  • Seljuk Caliphate
  • Shoa
  • Shogun Japan (Kamakura)
  • Shuar
  • Siberians
  • Sicily
  • Sinhalese kingdom
  • Srivijaya Empire
  • Subarctic forest hunter-gatherers
  • Sukhothai
  • Sultanate of Delhi
  • Sweden
  • Taino
  • Tasmanian hunter-gatherers
  • Teutonic Knights
  • Thule
  • Tibet
  • Trebizond
  • Tuʻi Tonga Empire
  • Venice
  • West African cereal farmers
  • Yemen
  • Zapotec Empire

Precision in the source

Not every border deserves the same confidence

Precision is inherited from the dataset when available. It describes how the line was encoded, not the overall certainty of every historical claim inside the polygon.

Approximate border
237
Unlabeled source geometries
122

Source, license, and download

Historical boundary snapshots for countries and cultural regions, used through 2010. Coverage: 53 available snapshots from prehistory through 2010

Reuse terms: GPL-3.0 repository license. Check the original project for full attribution and reuse requirements.