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The home and colonial populations of the world's empires in 1908, as given by The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer. Because of the trend of increasing world population over time, absolute population figures are for some purposes less relevant for comparison between different empires than their respective shares of the world population at the time ...
Benin Empire: 1180: 1897: 717 Bogd Khanate of Mongolia/Great Mongolian State 1911 1924 7 (broken up from 1915 to 1921) Bornu Empire: 1380: 1893: 513 Empire of Brazil: 1822: 1889: 67 Britannic Empire: 286: 296: 10 British Empire: 1583: 1997: 414 Bruneian Empire: 1368: 1888: 520 Bukhara Empire: 1501: 1785: 284 Bulgarian Empire (Great Bulgaria ...
Psalter world map (1260) Tabula Peutingeriana (1265, medieval map of the Roman Empire, believed to be based on 4th century source material) Hereford Mappa Mundi (c. 1285; the largest medieval map known still to exist) Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402)
Eventually, this First Persian Empire (also better known as the Achaemenid Empire) would stretch three continents, namely Europe, Asia and Africa, encompassing 8 million square kilometers, [20] and be the first world empire and the largest empire the world had yet seen in the ancient world. [21]
In general, the map was based on Shepherd and on Hall & Haywood, with modifications based on Grousset and Hourani (Hourani's map excludes the area retaken by Byzantium and the Crusaders in 1097-1100). Other maps show the Empire extending into present day Pakistan &/or that include Mecca, but I have found little evidence to support this.
According to Guinness World Records, the Persian Empire, or Achaemenid Empire, ruled 49.4 million subjects at its peak in 480 B.C. ... the largest empire ever — and 412 million subjects or 23% ...
53. |Date=1911 map by William R. Shepherd (12 June 1871 – 7 June 1934). 18:07, 20 March 2022: 900 × 413 (647 KB) The Story of Marjaan: Added the conquered parts in Northwestern India by Muhammad bin Qasim. The map can be found on File:QASIM.PNG. It depicts the largest extent of the territory conquered by Qasim during the Umayyads. 20:29, 21 ...
A map showing the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at its maximum extent following the Truce of Деулино, superimposed on present-day national borders. The map shows in red all of the territory that was ruled by Zygmunt III Waza in 1619 (the Polish monarch at that time), which made up the Commonwealth; it can be further divided up into: