List of sovereign states in 1500

A

Abazinia - Abazinia

Aceh - Aceh Sultanate
Capital: Kutaraja

Adal - Adal Sultanate
Capital: Dakkar

Ahmadnagar - Ahmadnagar Sultanate
Capital: Ahmadnagar

Ahom - Ahom Kingdom

Ağ Qoyunlu - Ağ Qoyunlu Confederation
Capital: Tabriz

 Alodia - Alodia
Capital: Soba

Andorra - Principality of Andorra
Capital: Andorra la Vella

Aragon - Kingdom of Aragon
Capital: Zaragoza

 Astrakhan Khanate - Khanate of Astrakhan
Capital: Xacitarxan

 Ava - Kingdom of Ava
Capital: Ava

 Avar - Avar Khanate
Capital: Khunzah

 Ayutthaya - Ayutthaya Kingdom
Capital: Ayutthaya (city)

Aztec - Aztec Empire
Capital: Tenochtitlan

Tenochtitlan

Texcoco

Tlacopan

B

 Bahmani Sultanate - Bahmani Sultanate (undergoing breakup)

 Benin - Benin Empire
Capital: Benin City

 Bengal - Sultanate of Bengal
Capital: Gaur

 Berar - Berar Sultanate
Capital: Ellichpur

 Bidar - Bidar Sultanate
Capital: Bidar

 Bijapur - Adil Shahi dynasty of the Bijapur Sultanate
Capital: Bijapur

 Bikaner
Capital: Bikaner

 Bohemia - Kingdom of Bohemia
Capital: Prague

Bonoman
Capital: Begho

Bornu - Bornu Empire
Capital: Ngazargamu

 Buganda - Buganda Kingdom
Capital: Mengo

 Butua - Kingdom of Butua
Capital: Khami

C

Cambodia
Capital: Chaktomuk

Catalonia - Principality of Catalonia
Capital: Barcelona

 Chagatai Khanate
Capital: Almaliq, Xinjiang

 Champa - Chăm Pa
Capital: Panduranga

 China – Empire of the Great Ming
Capital: Nanjing
Capital: Beijing

D

 Đại Việt
Capital: Hanoi

Delhi - Delhi Sultanate
Capital: Delhi

Denmark - Kingdom of Denmark
Capital: Copenhagen

E

 England - Kingdom of England
Capital: London

 Ethiopia - Ethiopian Empire

F

 Florence - Republic of Florence
Capital: Florence

 France - Kingdom of France
Capital: Paris

G

 Gajapati Kingdom - Gajapati dynasty, Odisha
Capital: Cuttack

 Genoa - Republic of Genoa
Capital: Genoa

Great Horde - Golden Horde, Great Horde
Capital: Sarai (city)

 Gond kingdoms (tumultuous city-states and tribes)

Gujarat - Gujarat Sultanate
Capital: Muhammadabad

H

 Hafsid dynasty - Hafsid Kingdom, Sultanate of Tunis
Capital: Tunis

 Hanthawaddy - Hanthawaddy Kingdom
Capital: Hanthawaddy

 Hausa Kingdoms

 Holy Roman Empire (high decentralized limited elective monarchy)

 Hungary - Kingdom of Hungary
Capital: Buda

I

Incan - Inca Empire
Capital: Cusco

 Iroquois Confederacy - Iroquois Confederacy
Capital: Onondaga

J

Jaisalmer
Capital: Jaisalmer

Japan - Ashikaga Shogunate
Capital: Kyoto

 Jodhpur
Capital: Jodhpur

 Jolof - Kingdom of Jolof
Capital: Linguère

 Joseon
Capital: Hanseong

K

 Kashmir - Shah Mir Dynasty of Kashmir

Kazakh Khanate - Kazakh Khanate
Capital: Turkistan

Kazan Khanate - Khanate of Kazan
Capital: Kazan

Knights Hospitaller - Knights Hospitaller
Capital: Rhodes

Kongo - Kingdom of Kongo
Capital: M'banza-Kongo

 Kotte - Kingdom of Kotte
Capital: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte

L

 Ladakh - Namgyal dynasty of Ladakh

 Lan Na - Lanna Kingdom
Capital: Chiang Mai

 Lan Xang
Capital: Luang Prabang

Lithuanian - Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Capital: Vilnius

M

Majorca - Kingdom of Majorca
Capital: Palma, Majorca
Capital: Perpignan

 Mali - Mali Empire
Capital: Niani village

 Malwa - Malwa Sultanate
Capital: Mandu

Mamluk Sultanate - Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo
Capital: Cairo

Manipur - Kangleipak State

Mewar - Mewar Kingdom
Capital: Chittor

 Moghulistan

 Moldavia - Principality of Moldavia
Capital: Suceava

 Morocco - Wattasid dynasty of Morocco
Capital: Fes

 Mrauk U - Kingdom of Mrauk U
Capital: Mrauk U

 Muisca Confederation

Muscovy - Grand Duchy of Muscovy
Capital: Moscow

Mutapa - Kingdom of Mutapa
Capital: Zvongombe

N

 Naples - Kingdom of Sicily (Naples)
Capital: Naples

 Nepal - Malla dynasty of Nepal (divided into three kingdoms since 1482)

O

 Oirat - Four Oirat

Oman - Imamate of Oman
Capital: Nizwa

 Ottoman Empire
Capital: Constantinople

P

 Papal States
Capital: Rome

Poland - Kingdom of Poland
Capital: Kraków

 Portugal - Kingdom of Portugal
Capital: Lisbon

R

 Rwanda - Kingdom of Rwanda
Capital: Nyanza, Rwanda

S

San Marino - Republic of San Marino
Capital: City of San Marino

County of Santa Fiora

 Sardinia - Kingdom of Sardinia
Capital: Cagliari

 Savoy - Duchy of Savoy
Capital: Chambéry

 Scotland - Kingdom of Scotland
Capital: Edinburgh

  Shan States (minor kingdoms of Burma)

 Sibir - Khanate of Sibir
Capital: Qashliq

Sindh - Samma dynasty of Sindh
Capital: Thatta

 Sicily - Kingdom of Sicily
Capital: Palermo

 Songhai - Songhai Empire
Capital: Gao

 Sutiya - Sutiya Kingdom
Capital: Sadiya

Sweden - Kingdom of Sweden
Capital: Stockholm

T

 Tarascan state
Capital: Tzintzuntzan (Mesoamerican site)

 Tibet - Rinpungpa dynasty of Tibet
Capital: Shigatse

Timurid Empire
Capital: Herat

Tlaxcala - Confederacy of Tlaxcala
Capital: Tlaxcala

Kingdom of Tlemcen - Zayyanid Kingdom of Tlemcen
Capital: Tlemcen

V

 Venice - Republic of Venice
Capital: Venice

 Vijayanagara - Vijayanagara Empire
Capital: Vijayanagara

W

 Wales - Wales
Capital: Cardiff

Y

 Yemen - Tahirid dynasty of Yemen
Capital: Zabid

Z

 Zapotec - Zapotec Empire
Capital: Mitla

Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a highly decentralized collection of polities. A comprehensive list of all of its anachronistic components has been made at List of states in the Holy Roman Empire, and would be much too large to fit here.

Contents

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• R
• S
• T
• V
• W
• Y
• Z
• Holy Roman Empire
• Crowns and Unions
• Gujarat
• Ottoman Empire
• Poland
• Portugal
• Spain Crown of Castile and Crown of Aragon
• Vijayanagara
• References

Crowns and Unions

Crowns were composite monarchies composed of multiple countries under one ruler.

 Kalmar Union

Polish–Lithuanian union (federal union)

Spain (dynastic union)

Aragon - Crown of Aragon

 Castile - Crown of Castile

Gujarat

 Khandesh - Faruqi dynasty of the Khandesh Sultanate (vassal)
Capital: Burhanpur

Ottoman Empire

Crimean Khanate - Crimean Khanate
Capital: Bakhchysarai

 Ragusa - Republic of Ragusa (vassal)
Capital: Ragusa

 Wallachia - Principality of Wallachia (vassal)
Capital: Târgoviște

Poland

Teutonic Knights - State of the Teutonic Order (fief)
Capital: Königsberg

Portugal

Azores (possession)

Brazil (colony)

Ceuta (possession; Moroccan city captured in 1415)

Portuguese Gold Coast (colony)
Capital: São Jorge da Mina

Portuguese Mozambique (colony)
Capital: Lourenço Marques

Príncipe (colony)

São Tomé (colony)

Tangier (possession)

Spain (Crown of Castile and Crown of Aragon)

Canary Islands - Kingdom of the Canary Islands
Capital: Teguise (municipality)

 Mellila - Mellila (Moroccan city siezed in 1497)

Vijayanagara

 Calicut - Kingdom of Kozhikode (vassal)
Capital: Kozhikode

 Mysore - Kingdom of Mysore (vassal)
Capital: Mysore