| Variable | Definition |
|---|---|
| Polity | The Seshat Polity ID |
| Year(s) | The years for which we have the data. [negative = BCE] |
| Tag | [Evidenced, Disputed, Suspected, Inferred, Unknown] |
| Verified | A Seshat Expert has approved this piece of data. |
| Variable | Definition |
|---|---|
| population_of_the_largest_settlement_from | The lower range of population of the largest settlement for a polity. |
| population_of_the_largest_settlement_to | The upper range of population of the largest settlement for a polity. |
| # | Polity | Year(s) | Population of the Largest Settlement from | Population of the Largest Settlement to | Description | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 551 |
(Tabal Kingdoms) |
Full Year Range of Tabal Kingdoms is assumed. [-900, -730] |
None |
None |
Inhabitants. data on Neo-Hittite settlements "Following the general trends of the Iron Age, the typical Neo-Hittite settlement was a well-protected, but small, citadel. The only exception is Carchemish, which more than doubled in size compared to the already large Middle and Late Bronze Age settlement ... Therefore, the area within the new fortification wall surrounding the 'lower city' now reached around a hundred hectares. All the other capitals were far smaller in size." [Liverani_Tabatabai 2014, p. 455] "Tuwana was the largest and most important kingdom of the southern Tabal region. Its capital is probably to be identified with Classical Tyana (Kemerhisar), 20 km south-west of modern Nigde..." [Bryce 2012, p. 148] |
|
| 552 |
(Sind - Abbasid-Fatimid Period) |
Full Year Range of Sind - Abbasid-Fatimid Period is assumed. [854, 1193] |
None |
None |
City of Mansura | |
| 554 |
(Late Cappadocia) |
Full Year Range of Late Cappadocia is assumed. [-330, 16] |
None |
None |
Mazaca-Eusebeia? Possibly in the region of 50,000-100,000? | |
| 555 |
(Lysimachus Kingdom) |
Full Year Range of Lysimachus Kingdom is assumed. [-323, -281] |
None |
None |
unknown | |
| 556 |
(Kidarite Kingdom) |
Full Year Range of Kidarite Kingdom is assumed. [388, 477] |
None |
None |
Inhabitants. Samarkand or Balkh 400 CE Gandhara c450 CE Captured Gandhara in India. [Zeimal_Litvinsky_Iskender-Mochiri 1996, pp. 123-137] |
|
| 557 |
(Khwarezmid Empire) |
Full Year Range of Khwarezmid Empire is assumed. [1157, 1231] |
None |
None |
None | |
| 559 |
(Kalingga Kingdom) |
Full Year Range of Kalingga Kingdom is assumed. [500, 732] |
None |
None |
Inhabitants. “Despite a single reference to cities with streets in Central Java by 1650 B.P., reported as hearsay by some early visitors from China, it is extremely doubtful that any settlement in the archipelago would have harbored more than a few thou- sand residents. An estimate of around 900 residents is available for Gilimanuk in Bali, but this is deduced from estimates of the total number of burials, the site's longevity, and the mortality rate." [Bulbeck_Peregrine_Ember 2000, p. 84] | |
| 560 |
(Hmong - Early Chinese) |
Full Year Range of Hmong - Early Chinese is assumed. [1895, 1941] |
None |
None |
Inhabitants. Most Hmong lived in villages or hamlets rather than towns. These villages differed widely in size: 'At higher elevations, as on the plateau straddling Guizhou and Yunnan, settlements are rarely larger than twenty households. An average village in central Guizhou might have 35 or 40 households, while in Qiandongnan villages of 80 to 130 families are common, and a few settlements have close to 1,000 households. Villages are compact, with some cleared space in front of the houses, and footpaths. In some areas houses are of wood, raised off the ground, and with an additional sleeping and storage loft under a thatched or tiled roof. Elsewhere they are single-story buildings made of tamped earth or stone depending on local conditions. Windows are a recent introduction. Animals are now kept in outbuildings; in the past they were sheltered under the raised house or kept inside. Many settlements are marked by a grove of trees, where religious ceremonies are held.' [Diamond 2009] 'It is estimated that the number of Ch'uan Miao people is about 150,000. In Szechwan Province, they are found as far north as Kung Hsien □ and Ch'ang Ning □ and about 100 li east of Yung Ning □. They extend a short distance into the northeastern tip of Kweichow, south in Yunnan as far as Ta Kuan □ and below Cheng Hsiung, and a short distance westward toward Hsü Kiang □. They do not live in villages, towns, or cities but are interspersed among a much larger population of Chinese who live in the towns and cities and in many of the farmhouses.' [Diamond 2009] The largests settlements were Chinese towns and provincial capitals, but the sources often do not provide exact figures for them: 'KWEICHOW is a part of the Southwestern Tableland which, as a spar of the great Tibetan plateau, slopes to the south and east away from Tibet (fig. 1, frontispiece). It is bounded on the north by Szechuan, on the east by Hunan, on the south by Kwangsi, and on the west by Yünnan. The structural trend in Kweichow is east and west, with drainage to the south into the West River and to the north and east into the Yangtze River. The province slopes from a height of over 6000 feet in the west to less than 2000 feet in the east. Some valleys lie as high as 4000 feet, and mountain summits reach 9000. S. R. Clarke estimated that most of Kweichow is at least 3000 feet above sea level, the altitude constantly decreasing as one goes east. Wei-ning Lake, in the western part of the province is, he says, 7000 feet above sea level. The altitude of Kweiyang, the capital, is given by G. B. Cressey as 3468.56 feet. There are certainly high mountains in the western part of the province. The traveler going by motor road from Kunming to Kweiyang repeatedly has the feeling of being “on top of the world.”' [Mickey 1947] 'In 1932 I was transferred to Chengtu □, the capital of the province, and was made curator of the West China Union University Museum of Archaeology, Art, and Ethnology. From this time on I made more determined efforts to learn about the Ch'uan Miao. I spent several summers with them, and on one of these expeditions I was accompanied by W. R. Morse, M.D., and Gordon Agnew, D.D.S.' [Graham 1954] 'Like Kweiyang, the hsien city of Lung-li was in an open plain, but a narrow one. The space between the mountains was sufficient for a walled town of one long street between the east and west gates and one or two on either side. There were fields outside the city walls. Its normal population was between three and four thousand, augmented during the war by the coming of some “companies” for the installation and repair of charcoal burners in motor lorries and the distillation of grain alcohol for fuel, an Army officers' training school, and the engineers' corps of the railway being built through the town from Kwangsi to Kweiyang. To it the people of the surrounding contryside, including at least three groups of Miao and the Chung-chia, went to market. It was also the seat of the hsien government and contained a middle school, postal and telegraph offices, and a cooperative bank, with all of which the non-Chinese, as well as the Chinese, had some dealings. A few of the more well-to-do families sent one of their boys to the middle school. Cases which could not be settled in the village or by the lien pao official, who was also a Chinese, were of necessity brought to the hsien court, as well as cases which involved both Miao and Chinese.' [Mickey 1947] |