2,550 Years of Persia's Borders: Every Change from 550 BC to 2026

#history #maps #persia #geography Every border change of Persia from 550 BC to 2026, event by event. The height of the land shows how many years each place has spent under Persian rule so far; land that was lost stays on the map in grey. The population figure is an estimate of how many people lived in the territory held at the time. The smaller figure under it is the world population in the same year, from the same model. Chapters: 0:00 The Achaemenids (550 BC–331 BC) 1:08 Macedonian Rule (330 BC–248 BC) 1:21 The Parthians (247 BC–AD 223) 2:11 The Sasanians (AD 224–AD 650) 3:33 The Caliphate (AD 651–AD 860) 3:49 The Iranian Intermezzo (AD 861–1055) 4:34 Turks and Mongols (1056–1500) 5:03 The Safavids (1501–1721) 6:10 Nader Shah and the Zands (1722–1788) 6:50 The Qajars (1789–1924) 7:19 Modern Iran (1925–2026) The map follows Persia and Iran under Persian and Iranian dynasties: the Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian empires, the Iranian dynasties of the 9th to 11th centuries (Saffarids, Samanids, Buyids), and from 1501 the Safavids, Afsharids, Zands, Qajars, the Pahlavi dynasty and the Islamic Republic. Under Alexander and the Seleucids, under the Caliphate, and under Seljuk, Mongol, Timurid and Turkmen rule there was no Persian state; the map is grey in those years. Foreign occupations in the world wars are not shown as losses. Short conquests (held less than 15 years in total) appear while they last and leave no grey trace. Royalty Free Music from Tunetank.com Track: Somewhere In Time by Victorwayne https://tunetank.com/track/3980-somew... 📊 Data Sources: • Historical borders: Cliopatria v0.2.0, Seshat Global History Databank, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.... Changes: several polities combined into one timeline per country, clipped to Natural Earth land, reprojected, rasterised and smoothed. • Population: HYDE 3.2.1, Klein Goldewijk, K., Beusen, A., Doelman, J., Stehfest, E. (2017), Anthropogenic land use estimates for the Holocene, HYDE 3.2, Earth System Science Data 9, 927-953. Released under CC0 by the DANS archive. Modelled estimates, summed over the territory held in each year; after 2017 extrapolated. • Land, lakes and modern borders: Natural Earth (public domain) • Typeface: Montserrat (SIL Open Font License 1.1)