World map in AD 1250 — territory by country

Frame AD 1250 — world borders from AD 1250 to AD 1259. 118 countries have territory in this frame, and the largest is Mongol Empire (≈ 23.97 million km²).

Countries with territory in this frame (118, largest first)

Rank	Country	Area
1	Mongol Empire	≈ 23.97 million km²
2	Song dynasty	≈ 1.94 million km²
3	Mamluk Sultanate	≈ 1.52 million km²
4	Mamluk dynasty (Delhi)	≈ 1.34 million km²
5	Mali Empire	≈ 973 thousand km²
6	Holy Roman Empire	≈ 859 thousand km²
7	Khmer Empire	≈ 516 thousand km²
8	Srivijaya	≈ 457 thousand km²
9	Seuna dynasty	≈ 447 thousand km²
10	Pagan Kingdom	≈ 440 thousand km²
11	Marinid dynasty	≈ 389 thousand km²
12	Rasulid dynasty	≈ 378 thousand km²
13	Dali Kingdom	≈ 360 thousand km²
14	Crown of Castile	≈ 354 thousand km²
15	Kingdom of Hungary	≈ 349 thousand km²
16	Kamakura shogunate	≈ 321 thousand km²
17	Norway	≈ 311 thousand km²
18	Sukhothai Kingdom	≈ 272 thousand km²
19	Kakatiya dynasty	≈ 255 thousand km²
20	Empire of Nicaea	≈ 236 thousand km²
21	Lohara dynasty	≈ 227 thousand km²
22	Kingdom of England	≈ 226 thousand km²
23	Hafsid dynasty	≈ 224 thousand km²
24	Pandya dynasty	≈ 220 thousand km²
25	Makuria	≈ 213 thousand km²
26	Sultanate of Rum	≈ 192 thousand km²
27	Kingdom of France	≈ 191 thousand km²
28	Sweden	≈ 183 thousand km²
29	Abbasid Caliphate	≈ 168 thousand km²
30	Grand Duchy of Lithuania	≈ 166 thousand km²
31	Eastern Ganga dynasty	≈ 151 thousand km²
32	Goryeo	≈ 143 thousand km²
33	Ngô dynasty	≈ 140 thousand km²
34	Maya civilization	≈ 135 thousand km²
35	Zayyanid dynasty	≈ 126 thousand km²
36	Alodia	≈ 124 thousand km²
37	Champa	≈ 123 thousand km²
38	Duchy of Sandomierz	≈ 113 thousand km²
39	Icelandic Commonwealth	≈ 112 thousand km²
40	Zengid dynasty	≈ 109 thousand km²
41	Crown of Aragon	≈ 103 thousand km²
42	Danish Realm	≈ 101 thousand km²
43	Second Bulgarian Empire	≈ 100 thousand km²
44	Teutonic Order	≈ 96 thousand km²
45	Kingdom of Portugal	≈ 92 thousand km²
46	Kingdom of Sicily	≈ 92 thousand km²
47	Mahdids	≈ 84 thousand km²
48	Chandelas of Jejakabhukti	≈ 81 thousand km²
49	Hamdanid dynasty	≈ 74 thousand km²
50	Singhasari	≈ 73 thousand km²
51	Kingdom of Serbia	≈ 73 thousand km²
52	Hoysala Kingdom	≈ 71 thousand km²
53	Kingdom of Bohemia	≈ 71 thousand km²
54	Kingdom of Alba	≈ 65 thousand km²
55	Sunda Kingdom	≈ 62 thousand km²
56	Despotate of Epirus	≈ 61 thousand km²
57	Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia	≈ 59 thousand km²
58	Haripuñjaya	≈ 55 thousand km²
59	Vikings	≈ 47 thousand km²
60	Lavo Kingdom	≈ 43 thousand km²
61	Sri Lanka	≈ 42 thousand km²
62	Duchy of Brittany	≈ 37 thousand km²
63	Duchy of Greater Poland	≈ 34 thousand km²
64	Emirate of Granada	≈ 31 thousand km²
65	Duchy of Masovia	≈ 31 thousand km²
66	Republic of Pisa	≈ 28 thousand km²
67	Kingdom of Polonnaruwa	≈ 27 thousand km²
68	Norse settlement of North America	≈ 26 thousand km²
69	County of Champagne	≈ 25 thousand km²
70	Capetian House of Anjou	≈ 23 thousand km²
71	Kingdom of Arles	≈ 21 thousand km²
72	Kanem–Bornu Empire	≈ 20 thousand km²
73	Republic of Venice	≈ 20 thousand km²
74	Banate of Bosnia	≈ 19 thousand km²
75	Principality of Achaea	≈ 19 thousand km²
76	Auvergne	≈ 19 thousand km²
77	Papal States	≈ 16 thousand km²
78	Duchy of Głogów	≈ 16 thousand km²
79	Empire of Trebizond	≈ 15 thousand km²
80	Kingdom of Gwynedd	≈ 15 thousand km²
81	Zagwe dynasty	≈ 14 thousand km²
82	Kedah Sultanate	≈ 13 thousand km²
83	Duchy of Opole	≈ 13 thousand km²
84	Duchy of Silesia	≈ 13 thousand km²
85	County of Nevers	≈ 13 thousand km²
86	County of Périgord	≈ 12 thousand km²
87	Kingdom of Cyprus	≈ 11 thousand km²
88	Touraine	≈ 10 thousand km²
89	Kingdom of Navarre	≈ 10 thousand km²
90	Duchy of Aquitaine	≈ 9,582 km²
91	County of Flanders	≈ 9,231 km²
92	Kingdom of Jerusalem	≈ 8,858 km²
93	Ancestral Puebloans	≈ 8,739 km²
94	Duchy of Athens	≈ 8,687 km²
95	Judicate of Logudoro	≈ 8,247 km²
96	County of Blois	≈ 8,090 km²
97	Chola Empire	≈ 7,865 km²
98	County of Artois	≈ 7,566 km²
99	Republic of Genoa	≈ 7,154 km²
100	County of Armagnac	≈ 7,079 km²
101	Chimor	≈ 6,897 km²
102	Kingdom of the Isles	≈ 6,003 km²
103	Principality of Antioch	≈ 5,460 km²
104	Kingdom of Dambadeniya	≈ 5,219 km²
105	County of Foix	≈ 4,586 km²
106	Judicate of Arborea	≈ 3,855 km²
107	County of Tripoli	≈ 3,177 km²
108	Latin Empire	≈ 2,997 km²
109	Texcoco	≈ 2,632 km²
110	Shunten dynasty	≈ 2,186 km²
111	Tibetans	≈ 2,004 km²
112	Tamna	≈ 1,959 km²
113	Duchy of the Archipelago	≈ 1,233 km²
114	Almohad Caliphate	≈ 1,199 km²
115	Namayan	≈ 874 km²
116	County of Empúries	≈ 809 km²
117	Kathmandu	≈ 661 km²
118	County of Boulogne	≈ 640 km²

Map of this frame (only countries over 400,000 km², simplified)

New countries in this frame (3)

Marinid dynasty · Capetian House of Anjou · Duchy of Głogów

Countries that disappeared in this frame (15)

Ayyubid dynasty · Chaulukya dynasty · Polotsk · Principality of Minsk · Taifa of Murcia · Taifa of Valencia · County of Toulouse · Taifa of Dénia · County of Poitou · Empire of Thessalonica · Taifa of Almería · Principality of Drutsk · Taifa of Córdoba · Rhodes · Taifa of Niebla

Directions of expansion (4)

These are cases where one country’s land grew into another country’s former land (not actual routes of advance).

Mongol Empire → former land of Tibetans, ≈ 1.87 million km²
Mamluk Sultanate → former land of Ayyubid dynasty, ≈ 1.24 million km²
Mongol Empire → former land of Hamdanid dynasty, ≈ 1.03 million km²
Mongol Empire → former land of Sultanate of Rum, ≈ 154 thousand km²

The world in AD 1250

75 events from the sources that fall in this frame, grouped by region.

China (27)

AD 1250 — The Byeongmasa of the Donggye reports that enemy troops entered Goju and Hwaju, and Goseong. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家卷23 高宗三十七年)
AD 1251 — Princes and generals from the west and east held another great assembly at Kute Aral and enthroned Möngke. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷3 憲宗 1251年 6月)
AD 1252 — Kublai was assigned the campaign against Dali; princes were assigned to Shendu and Molixi, and Hulagu to the campaign against the Sultanate in the western regions. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷3 憲宗 1252年 7月)
AD 1252 — In 1252 Hulagu besieged the castle of the Old Man of the Mountain for three years and brought it down. (Marco Polo, The Travels (Yule translation) Book I ch. XXV (Yule 영역 가운데 HOW THE OLD MAN CAME BY HIS END.))
AD 1253 — Dali was pacified. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷3 憲宗 1253年 12月)
AD 1253 — Kublai's army crossed the Dadu River, traversed more than two thousand li of mountain valleys, and crossed the Jinsha River on leather floats and rafts. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷4 世祖 1253年 10月)
AD 1253 — Kublai's army pressed upon the walls of Dali. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷4 世祖 1253年 12月)
AD 1253 — The fleeing Dali chief minister Gao Shang was captured and beheaded at Yaozhou. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷4 世祖 1253年 12月)
AD 1253 — In the first month, while the generals competed to build mansions at Jingzhao, the Emperor (younger brother of the Mongol ruler) sent envoys to garrison the Xingyuan prefectures, set up a Zongyi Office at Jingzhao, and held tuntian at Fengxiang. (Xu Zizhi Tongjian (Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror) 권174 正月 단락174.4.3)
AD 1256 — The monk Liu Bingzhong (Zicong) divined a site north of Huanzhou and east of Nanshui, and built the walls of Kaiping and the palaces. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷4 世祖 1256年 3月)

Korean Peninsula (17)

AD 1251 — Mongol envoy Go-i says the northwest border has already been badly ravaged, so rather than return to the old capital, rely on the rivers and defend oneself. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家卷24 高宗三十八年)
AD 1251 — Jang Gon enters Ganghwa. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家卷24 高宗三十八年)
AD 1251 — January 1251: the king entertains the Mongol envoy Honggoi at Jepogung. The envoy says the north has already been destroyed and a return to the old capital is impossible, so they should defend by relying on the river, and that he will go back and report (Goryeosa Jeolyo (Essentials of Goryeo History) 권17 高宗三十八年)
AD 1252 — Prince Yegu was ordered to campaign against Goryeo. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷3 憲宗 1252年 10月)
AD 1253 — More than three hundred Mongol scouting cavalry reach Bansuk post south of Jeonju Fortress, where Byeolcho Jiyu Yi Ju kills more than half and captures twenty horses. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家卷24 高宗四十年)
AD 1253 — The Mongol army besieges Deungju, lifts the siege, and heads for Geumyang Fortress. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家卷24 高宗四十年)
AD 1253 — When the Mongols besiege Yanggeun Fortress, the Banghobyeolgam Yun Chun leads his followers out and surrenders. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家卷24 高宗四十年)
AD 1253 — When the Mongols attack Cheonryong Mountain Fortress, Jeong Sin-dan, magistrate of Hwangnyeo, and the Banghobyeolgam Jo Bang-eon set sail. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家卷24 高宗四十年)
AD 1253 — 1253: Mongol forces take Dongju mountain fortress. Defense commissioner Baek Don-myeong faces them with 600 elite troops, but the soldiers flee without fighting, and Don-myeong, the vice-magistrate, the judge and the magistrate are killed, with women and children taken captive (Goryeosa Jeolyo (Essentials of Goryeo History) 권17 高宗四十年)
AD 1254 — A Mongol scouting cavalry unit camps beneath Goeju Fortress; the sansewon Jang Ja-bang leads the Byeolcho and defeats them. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家卷24 高宗四十一年)

Mongolia & Steppe (1)

AD 1251 — In the year of the Pig, in the month of (…), Möngke Qaan was seated on the throne near Karakorum, where the throne of Chinggis Khan stood. (Rashid al-Din, Jami' al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) 87460_djvu.txt 줄 16154–16157)

Southeast Asia (3)

AD 1257 — The Yuan general Uliangkatai invaded Pingliyuan, and the emperor personally oversaw the fighting. (Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư 本紀卷之五「丁巳七年春二月，黄炳挈家詣闕，進」)
AD 1257 — The emperor and the crown prince met them at Đông Bộ Đầu with galley ships and inflicted a great defeat. (Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư 本紀卷之五「丁巳七年春二月，黄炳挈家詣闕，進」)
AD 1257 — Uriyangqadai attacked Jiaozhi and entered that country; the ruler of Annam, Tran Nhat Canh (陳日煚), fled to an island at sea. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷3 憲宗 1257年 11月)

West Asia (18)

AD 1250 — Batu sent his brother Berke and his son Sartaq with three tümen to seat Möngke on the throne at «Onan-Keluran», the yurt of Chinggis Khan. (Rashid al-Din, Jami' al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) 87460_djvu.txt 줄 9657–9659)
AD 1250 — Batu took the cup («کاسه») and, having named Möngke khan, all present swore allegiance; they agreed to hold a great quriltai the following year. (Rashid al-Din, Jami' al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) 87460_djvu.txt 줄 15941–15944)
AD 1250 — The throne of the Qaan had been vacant for two years; because the sons of Ögedei did not come, he sent word: «You seat him on the throne.» (Rashid al-Din, Jami' al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) 87460_djvu.txt 줄 16055–16058)
AD 1251 — The army was posted around the princes Shiramun, Naqu, and Totoq, and a message was sent to them: «You …» (damaged). (Rashid al-Din, Jami' al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) 87460_djvu.txt 줄 16511–16514)
AD 1251 — They were brought inside the ordu, feasted for three days, and not questioned at all. (Rashid al-Din, Jami' al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) 87460_djvu.txt 줄 16523–16527)
AD 1251 — Möngke entrusted the eastern (Kitai) region to Yalavach (Mahmud Yalavach), and the Uighur, Fergana, and Khwarazm lands to Mas'ud Beg, a division of administration. (Rashid al-Din, Jami' al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) 87460_djvu.txt 줄 17327–17331)
AD 1251 — Möngke entrusted the (Iranian) countries, Khurasan, and Mazanderan to them, and after Amir Arghun reached the imperial ordu … (damaged). (Rashid al-Din, Jami' al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) 87460_djvu.txt 줄 18842–18844)
AD 1252 — In the line marked «…52 years» a death occurred; Orghina Khatun installed Mubarak-Shah, son of Qara Hülegü, as ruler. (Rashid al-Din, Jami' al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) 87460_djvu.txt 줄 11987–11989)
AD 1252 — After interrogation, they all confessed with one voice, saying «I did it» (the exact charge is damaged in the preceding line). (Rashid al-Din, Jami' al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) 87460_djvu.txt 줄 16703–16705)
AD 1252 — Möngke imprisoned the amirs; the passage notes that some of the amirs had suffered the same fate in his father's time (OCR-damaged). (Rashid al-Din, Jami' al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) 87460_djvu.txt 줄 16811–16814)

Eastern Europe & Russia (9)

AD 1250 — Alexander returns from the Horde. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1250년)
AD 1251 — Metropolitan Kirill appoints Dalmat as archbishop in Novgorod the Great. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1251년)
AD 1252 — The Tatar commanders Nevryuy and others caught up with Prince Andrei near Pereyaslavl on 24 July 1252 and defeated him. (Karamzin, History of the Russian State 제4권 II장)
AD 1253 — Prince Vasily and the Novgorodians defeat the Lithuanian invasion at Toropets. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1253년)
AD 1255 — The Novgorodians seat Yaroslav Yaroslavich and expel Vasily; Alexander comes with his army. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1255년)
AD 1256 — The Swedes, Emi and Sum build a fortress on the Narva river; hearing of Novgorod, they flee across the sea. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1256년)
AD 1257 — News of the Tatar census (tamga and tithe) unsettles Novgorod. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1257년)
AD 1258 — Lithuanians and the men of Polotsk attack Smolensk and take Voishina. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1258년)
AD 1259 — Tatar commanders Berkai and Kasachik come to Novgorod with their wives and conduct a census. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1259년)

Changes of power ◆

◆ AD 1250 — Marinid dynasty appears
◆ AD 1250 — Ayyubid dynasty ends
◆ AD 1250 — Chaulukya dynasty ends
◆ AD 1250 — Polotsk ends
◆ AD 1250 — Mongol Empire takes 1,867,700 km² of former Tibetans land
◆ AD 1250 — Mamluk Sultanate takes 1,234,700 km² of former Ayyubid dynasty land
◆ AD 1250 — Mongol Empire takes 1,030,200 km² of former Hamdanid dynasty land
◆ AD 1250 — Mongol Empire takes 154,300 km² of former Sultanate of Rum land