World map in AD 1272 — territory by country

Frame AD 1272 — world borders from AD 1272 to AD 1278. 121 countries have territory in this frame, and the largest is Mongol Empire (≈ 25.55 million km²).

Countries with territory in this frame (121, largest first)

Rank	Country	Area
1	Mongol Empire	≈ 25.55 million km²
2	Song dynasty	≈ 1.73 million km²
3	Mamluk Sultanate	≈ 1.47 million km²
4	Mamluk dynasty (Delhi)	≈ 1.34 million km²
5	Mali Empire	≈ 973 thousand km²
6	Holy Roman Empire	≈ 528 thousand km²
7	Khmer Empire	≈ 516 thousand km²
8	Seuna dynasty	≈ 484 thousand km²
9	Srivijaya	≈ 457 thousand km²
10	Pagan Kingdom	≈ 440 thousand km²
11	Norway	≈ 439 thousand km²
12	Almohad Caliphate	≈ 389 thousand km²
13	Rasulid dynasty	≈ 378 thousand km²
14	Crown of Castile	≈ 354 thousand km²
15	Kingdom of Hungary	≈ 349 thousand km²
16	Kamakura shogunate	≈ 321 thousand km²
17	Kakatiya dynasty	≈ 298 thousand km²
18	Sukhothai Kingdom	≈ 272 thousand km²
19	Empire of Nicaea	≈ 241 thousand km²
20	Hafsid dynasty	≈ 224 thousand km²
21	Pandya dynasty	≈ 218 thousand km²
22	Kingdom of England	≈ 215 thousand km²
23	Makuria	≈ 213 thousand km²
24	Ethiopian Empire	≈ 209 thousand km²
25	Eastern Ganga dynasty	≈ 206 thousand km²
26	Kingdom of France	≈ 206 thousand km²
27	Sweden	≈ 183 thousand km²
28	Kingdom of Bohemia	≈ 151 thousand km²
29	Goryeo (Yuan intervention period)	≈ 143 thousand km²
30	Ngô dynasty	≈ 140 thousand km²
31	Maya civilization	≈ 135 thousand km²
32	Zayyanid dynasty	≈ 126 thousand km²
33	Alodia	≈ 124 thousand km²
34	Champa	≈ 123 thousand km²
35	Duchy of Sandomierz	≈ 113 thousand km²
36	Teutonic Order	≈ 112 thousand km²
37	Crown of Aragon	≈ 105 thousand km²
38	Danish Realm	≈ 101 thousand km²
39	Second Bulgarian Empire	≈ 100 thousand km²
40	Principality of Minsk	≈ 99 thousand km²
41	Kingdom of Portugal	≈ 92 thousand km²
42	Kingdom of Sicily	≈ 92 thousand km²
43	Grand Duchy of Lithuania	≈ 91 thousand km²
44	Kingdom of Alba	≈ 85 thousand km²
45	Mahdids	≈ 84 thousand km²
46	Chandelas of Jejakabhukti	≈ 81 thousand km²
47	Kingdom of Serbia	≈ 74 thousand km²
48	Al-Ahsa Oasis	≈ 74 thousand km²
49	Singhasari	≈ 73 thousand km²
50	Sri Lanka	≈ 68 thousand km²
51	Sunda Kingdom	≈ 62 thousand km²
52	Hoysala Kingdom	≈ 57 thousand km²
53	Haripuñjaya	≈ 55 thousand km²
54	Capetian House of Anjou	≈ 50 thousand km²
55	Vikings	≈ 47 thousand km²
56	Despotate of Epirus	≈ 47 thousand km²
57	Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia	≈ 44 thousand km²
58	Lavo Kingdom	≈ 43 thousand km²
59	Margraviate of Brandenburg	≈ 41 thousand km²
60	Duchy of Brittany	≈ 37 thousand km²
61	Duchy of Bavaria	≈ 36 thousand km²
62	Duchy of Masovia	≈ 31 thousand km²
63	Emirate of Granada	≈ 31 thousand km²
64	County of Flanders	≈ 29 thousand km²
65	House of Ascania	≈ 29 thousand km²
66	Papal States	≈ 28 thousand km²
67	Republic of Pisa	≈ 28 thousand km²
68	Duchy of Greater Poland	≈ 26 thousand km²
69	County of Champagne	≈ 25 thousand km²
70	Kingdom of Arles	≈ 21 thousand km²
71	Kanem–Bornu Empire	≈ 20 thousand km²
72	Republic of Venice	≈ 20 thousand km²
73	Auvergne	≈ 19 thousand km²
74	Banate of Bosnia	≈ 19 thousand km²
75	House of Wittelsbach	≈ 18 thousand km²
76	County of Savoy	≈ 15 thousand km²
77	Empire of Trebizond	≈ 15 thousand km²
78	Principality of Achaea	≈ 15 thousand km²
79	Republic of Genoa	≈ 15 thousand km²
80	Kingdom of Gwynedd	≈ 15 thousand km²
81	Thessaly	≈ 14 thousand km²
82	Kedah Sultanate	≈ 13 thousand km²
83	Duchy of Silesia	≈ 13 thousand km²
84	Duchy of Głogów	≈ 13 thousand km²
85	Duchy of Opole	≈ 12 thousand km²
86	Landgraviate of Brabant	≈ 12 thousand km²
87	Kingdom of Cyprus	≈ 11 thousand km²
88	Republic of Florence	≈ 10 thousand km²
89	Touraine	≈ 10 thousand km²
90	Kingdom of Navarre	≈ 10 thousand km²
91	Duchy of Aquitaine	≈ 9,582 km²
92	House of Habsburg	≈ 9,369 km²
93	Dauphiné	≈ 9,291 km²
94	Patriarchate of Aquileia	≈ 9,006 km²
95	Ancestral Puebloans	≈ 8,739 km²
96	Samudera Pasai Sultanate	≈ 8,675 km²
97	County of Périgord	≈ 8,593 km²
98	County of Holland	≈ 8,421 km²
99	Duchy of Athens	≈ 8,193 km²
100	County of Blois	≈ 8,090 km²
101	County of Artois	≈ 7,588 km²
102	County of Armagnac	≈ 6,961 km²
103	Chimor	≈ 6,897 km²
104	House of Luxembourg	≈ 5,804 km²
105	Kingdom of Dambadeniya	≈ 5,219 km²
106	County of Foix	≈ 4,586 km²
107	Judicate of Arborea	≈ 3,855 km²
108	Latin Empire	≈ 2,997 km²
109	Texcoco	≈ 2,632 km²
110	Shunten dynasty	≈ 2,186 km²
111	Kingdom of Jerusalem	≈ 2,114 km²
112	Comtat Venaissin	≈ 2,109 km²
113	Tamna	≈ 1,959 km²
114	Duchy of the Archipelago	≈ 1,233 km²
115	Namayan	≈ 874 km²
116	County of Empúries	≈ 809 km²
117	Kathmandu	≈ 661 km²
118	County of Tripoli	≈ 454 km²
119	Duchy of Styria	≈ 277 km²
120	Capetian House of Anjou	≈ 243 km²
121	Principality of Orange	≈ 141 km²

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

New countries in this frame (5)

Ethiopian Empire · Capetian House of Anjou · Thessaly · Samudera Pasai Sultanate · Comtat Venaissin

Countries that disappeared in this frame (7)

Icelandic Commonwealth · Hohenstaufen · Norse settlement of North America · Principality of Antioch · County of Nevers · Zagwe dynasty · Kingdom of the Isles

Directions of expansion (2)

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

Norway → former land of Icelandic Commonwealth, ≈ 112 thousand km²
Mamluk Sultanate → former land of Mongol Empire, ≈ 106 thousand km²

The world in AD 1272

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

China (106)

AD 1272 — They broke the outer walls of Fancheng, beheaded two thousand, and captured sixteen commanders. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷7 世祖 1272年 2月)
AD 1272 — Song general Zhang Gui of Xiangyang escaped the city by transport boats and charged along the waterway; they lit fires, pursued him for fifty li, and captured him. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷7 世祖 1272年 9月)
AD 1272 — In 1272 the Great Khan sent a large army to Carajan and Vochan; the kings of Mien and Bangala vowed revenge, and the battle of Vochan followed. (Marco Polo, The Travels (Yule translation) Book II ch. LI (Yule 영역 가운데 WHEREIN IS RELATED HOW THE KING OF MIEN AND BANGAL))
AD 1272 — In the twelfth month, day xinhai, Zan Wanshou, Sichuan pacification envoy, sent troops to attack Chengdu; the Yuan official Yan Zhongfan was defeated, and eight men including Wang Shiying, Dongzhi, abandoned the city and fled, and the great city collapsed. (Xu Zizhi Tongjian (Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror) 권180 十二月 단락180.16.0)
AD 1273 — In the first month of the ninth year, Fancheng was broken; Fan Tianshun and Niu Fu died in battle. (History of Song (Songshi), Annals 宋史卷046 咸淳九年)
AD 1273 — Jia Sidao first reported that Lü Wenhuan, commander of Xiangyang, had surrendered the city to the Yuan. (History of Song (Songshi), Annals 宋史卷046 咸淳九年)
AD 1273 — Arihaya and others launched a massive assault on Fancheng and took it. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷8 世祖 1273年 1月)
AD 1273 — Lü Wenhuan, Song's Jingxi pacification commissioner and prefect of Xiangyang, offered the city and surrendered. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷8 世祖 1273年)
AD 1273 — In the first month, day yichou, Fancheng fell. (Xu Zizhi Tongjian (Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror) 권180 正月 단락180.1.0)
AD 1273 — In the second month, day gengxu, Lü Wenhuan, Jingxi pacification deputy commissioner, surrendered Xiangyang to the Yuan. (Xu Zizhi Tongjian (Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror) 권180 二月 단락180.5.0)

Korean Peninsula (8)

AD 1272 — The Samyeolcho enter Jeju, build inner and outer walls, and, trusting in its steep defenses, rage and plunder even more. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家卷27 元宗十三年)
AD 1272 — The Samyeolcho raid Happ'o, burn twenty warships, and take four Mongol garrison soldiers captive. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家卷27 元宗十三年)
AD 1272 — The Samyeolcho raid Geoje district, burn three warships, and take the magistrate captive. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家卷27 元宗十三年)
AD 1273 — Xindu and others reached Tamna (Jeju) and pacified it. (History of Yuan (Yuanshi), Annals 元史卷8 世祖 1273年 5月)
AD 1273 — The Samyeolcho again raid Happ'o, burn thirty-two warships, and kill or capture more than ten Mongol soldiers. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家卷27 元宗十四年)
AD 1273 — Kim Bang-gyeong, with Heundo and Dagu, leads 160 ships from the Jeolla province and more than ten thousand men by sea and land to Tamna, and utterly routs the enemy. (Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) 世家卷27 元宗十四年)
AD 1273 — 1273: the allied army of Kim Bang-gyeong and Hindu lands at Tamna through Hamdeokpo; striking enemies hidden among the rocks, they cross the outer wall, set fire with arrows, and the Sambyeolcho collapse (Goryeosa Jeolyo (Essentials of Goryeo History) 권19 元宗十四年)
AD 1274 — October 1274: Governor-General Kim Bang-gyeong and others set out from Happo to attack Japan with 8,000 Goryeo troops, 25,000 Mongol-Han troops and over 900 warships (Goryeosa Jeolyo (Essentials of Goryeo History) 권19 元宗十五年)

Japan (1)

AD 1274 — After 11 days they reach Iki, where Japanese troops form ranks on the shore; Bak Ji-ryang and Jo Byeon pursue them and the Japanese ask for surrender (Goryeosa Jeolyo (Essentials of Goryeo History) 권19 元宗十五年)

West Asia (1)

AD 1274 — In a line dated to the 70s (AH), Khwaja Nasir (Nasir al-Din Tusi) died at dusk in Baghdad and was buried in the tomb he had chosen himself. (Rashid al-Din, Jami' al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) 87460_djvu.txt 줄 28819–28823)

Eastern Europe & Russia (4)

AD 1272 — Yaroslav Yaroslavich dies in the Tatar land and is buried in the church of Cosmas and Damian in the fortress of Tver. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1272년)
AD 1273 — Dmitri Alexandrovich is seated in Novgorod on 9 October. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1273년)
AD 1276 — The Rus princes conquered and burned Dedyakov, an Alan city in southern Dagestan, took plunder and captives, and won the favor of the Khan. (No coordinates were guessed.) (Karamzin, History of the Russian State 제4권 V장)
AD 1278 — Dmitri punishes Novgorod, the lowland forces and Karelia, and sweeps the land. (Novgorod First Chronicle litopys 기사 1278년)

Changes of power ◆

◆ AD 1272 — Ethiopian Empire appears
◆ AD 1272 — Icelandic Commonwealth ends
◆ AD 1272 — Norway takes 111,600 km² of former Icelandic Commonwealth land
◆ AD 1272 — Mamluk Sultanate takes 105,800 km² of former Mongol Empire land
◆ AD 1272 — Icelandic Commonwealth loses 111,600 km² to Norway
◆ AD 1272 — Mongol Empire loses 105,800 km² to Mamluk Sultanate

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