historic region

A historic region is a geographically defined area recognized for its significant past events, cultural heritage, or historical identity that has shaped its development over time.

Aliases (21)

• historical region ×303
• historical polity ×48
• historic county ×47
• historic landscape ×3
• historical geographic region ×2
• ancient Greek colonial region ×1
• ancient Near Eastern region ×1
• ancient geographical region ×1
• archaeological landscape ×1
• historic Basque territory ×1
• historic core ×1
• historic province ×1
• historic region grouping ×1
• historic region of France ×1
• historical geographic term ×1
• historical jurisdiction ×1
• historical region classification ×1
• historical region of Georgia ×1
• historical region-period ×1
• region in history ×1
• region of ancient Egypt ×1

Instances (461)

• Lika region ("historical region")
• North China ("historical region")
• Western Nigeria ("historical region")
• Poland-Lithuania in the early modern period ("historical polity")
• Spisz ("historical region")
• Saxony ("historical region")
• Habsburg Netherlands ("historical polity")
• Eastern Nigeria ("historical region")
• Gloucestershire ("historic county")
• Asia (colonial possessions) ("historical region classification")
• Carnatic region of India ("historical region")
• Oxfordshire ("historic county")
• British Ceylon ("historical polity")
• Majapahit Empire ("historical polity")
• Fife ("historic county")
• Montgomeryshire ("historic county")
• Transvaal ("historical region")
• Etruria ("historical region")
• Plymouth Colony ("historical polity")
• Medang Kingdom ("historical polity")
• Dutch colonial empire ("historical polity")
• Canaan ("historical region")
• Islamic Caliphates ("historical polity")
• Middlesex, England ("historic county")
• Islamic Spain ("historical region")
• Thessaly ("historical region")
• Cyrenaica ("historical region")
• Kartli
• Singhasari Kingdom ("historical polity")
• Illyricum ("historical region")
• French North Africa ("historical region")
• Tonkin ("historical region")
• Natal ("historical region")
• Kakheti
• Hellenistic kingdoms ("historical polity")
• Cochinchina ("historical region")
• Imereti ("historical region")
• Epirus ("historical region")
• Illinois frontier ("historical region")
• Samegrelo
• Macedonia (Greece) ("historical region")
• Upper Egypt ("historical region")
• Mexican Alta California ("historical region")
• Guria ("historical region")
• Principality of Catalonia ("historical polity")
• Cheshire ("historic county")
• Podhale ("historical region")
• Fort Mojave area
• Forfarshire ("historic county")
• Svaneti
• Samtskhe-Javakheti ("historical region")
• Byzantine Egypt ("historical region")
• Province of Delaware ("historical region")
• Orawa ("historical region")
• Alsace ("historical region")
• Ohio Country ("historical region")
• Mahakoshal region ("historical region")
• Pomerania ("historical region")
• Magallanes Region (historically) ("historical region")
• Land van Cuijk region ("historical region")
• Central India ("historical region")
• East Jersey ("historical region")
• Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon) ("historical region")
• West Jersey ("historical region")
• Holy Land ("historical region")
• Lesser Poland ("historical region")
• Idumea ("historical geographic region")
• Aquia Creek area
• Middle Colonies ("historical region")
• Angus ("historic county")
• Fezzan ("historical region")
• Manchuria ("historical region")
• Boeotia ("historical region")
• Punjab ("historical region")
• South Wales (region of Wales)
• Malabar Coast ("historical region")
• Nottinghamshire ("historic county")
• Normandy ("historical region")
• Coromandel Coast ("historical region")
• Anjou
• Kingdom of Fife
• Latin West ("historical region")
• Greater Iran ("historical region")
• Manufacturing Belt ("historical region")
• Touraine ("historic region of France")
• Petsamo, Finland ("historical region")
• Gaul ("historical region")
• New Holland ("historical region")
• Andalusia ("historical region")
• Nubia
• Judea ("historical region")
• Tripolitania
• Japanese colonial empire ("historical polity")
• Ta-Mehu ("historical region")
• Poitou ("historical region")
• French First Republic ("historical polity")
• Lanarkshire ("historic county")
• Ionia ("historical region")
• Indian Territory ("historical region")
• Samaria ("historical region")
• Ayrshire ("historic county")
• Malay world ("historical region")
• Wales (parts) ("historical region")
• Brittany ("historical region")
• Aragon ("historical region")
• New England Colonies ("historical region")
• Basque Country ("historical region")
• Worcestershire, England ("historic county")
• Bohemia ("historical region")
• Stirlingshire ("historic county")
• Danish colonial empire ("historical polity")
• Odisha (parts) ("historical region")
• German-occupied Europe ("historical region")
• Tlaxcala ("historical region")
• Karelia ("historical region")
• Renfrewshire ("historic county")
• Lower Silesia ("historical region")
• Cieszyn Silesia ("historical region")
• Telangana (parts) ("historical region")
• Indus Valley ("ancient geographical region")
• Austrian Silesia ("historical region")
• Arkansas River region ("historical region")
• Prussian Silesia ("historical region")
• New World ("historical geographic term")
• Coahuila y Tejas ("historical region")
• East Frisia ("historical region")
• Greater Poland ("historical region")
• New England
• Bengal Sultanate ("historical polity")
• French Caribbean ("historical region")
• Iron Range region (Michigan)
• Westphalia ("historical region")
• Franche-Comté ("historical region")
• Mercia ("historical polity")
• Gold Coast ("historical region")
• Catalonia ("historical region")
• Acadia ("historical region")
• Northumbria ("historical region")
• Lingnan ("historical region")
• Moravia ("historical region")
• County of Artois ("historic county")
• Lothian and Fife ("historic region grouping")
• Central Ukraine ("historical region")
• Spanish America ("historical region")
• Cossack Hetmanate ("historical polity")
• Britannia (Roman province) ("historical region")
• Lower Egypt ("region of ancient Egypt")
• Morea ("historical region")
• Ancient Israel ("historical region")
• Ceremonial county of Somerset ("historic county")
• Arcadia ("historical region")
• Sumer ("historical region")
• Black Belt (U.S. region) ("historical region")
• Akkad ("historical region")
• county of Hertfordshire ("historic county")
• Argolid
• Seventeen Provinces ("historical polity")
• Dutch Brazil ("historical region")
• Armenian Highlands ("historical region")
• Weald ("historical region")
• Latium ("historical region")
• New France ("historical region")
• Territory Northwest of the River Ohio ("historical region")
• Pasundan ("historical region")
• Donbas ("historical region")
• Rohilkhand ("historical region")
• Bundelkhand
• Asir region ("historical region")
• Ancient Mediterranean world ("historical region")
• Nabataean kingdom ("historical polity")
• County Durham ("historic county")
• Kingdom of Valencia ("historical polity")
• Colchis ("historical region")
• Kuyavia ("historical region")
• Ulster ("historic province")
• American South (colonial and early national periods) ("historical region")
• British America ("historical region")
• Warmia-Masuria region ("historical region")
• Southern Arabia ("historical region")
• Gallic Empire ("historical polity")
• Duchy of Brabant ("historical region")
• Caliphate of Córdoba ("historical polity")
• Samnium ("historical region")
• Mesoamerica ("historical region")
• Scottish Highlands ("historical region")
• Numidia ("historical region")
• Hejaz ("historical region")
• Balkans ("historical region")
• County Antrim ("historic county")
• Mauretania (ancient kingdom) ("historical polity")
• Unfederated Malay States ("historical region")
• Najd ("historical region")
• Northern Arabia ("historical region")
• Kurdistan ("historical region")
• Congress Poland ("historical region")
• Lazistan ("historical region")
• Iranian Azerbaijan ("historical region")
• Oregon Country ("historical region")
• Kingdom of Kurdistan ("historical polity")
• Central Crimea ("historical region")
• Narragansett territory
• Upper Palatinate ("historical region")
• Pannonia ("historical region")
• Northern Crimea ("historical region")
• Meierij van ’s-Hertogenbosch
• Noricum ("historical region")
• Southern Colonies ("historical region")
• Raetia ("historical region")
• Levant region ("historical region")
• Mashonaland region ("historical region")
• Ottoman Palestine ("historical region")
• Eastern Bloc ("historical region")
• Sir Feirionnydd ("historic county")
• Silesia (as contested region) ("historical region")
• Bengal ("historical region")
• Sind ("historical region")
• Ohio Valley region ("historical region")
• Eastern Arabia ("historical region")
• Mamluk Sultanate ("historical polity")
• East Prussia ("historical region")
• Lowlands ("historical region")
• The Fens ("historic landscape")
• Gold Country
• Gondar region ("historical region")
• Ommelanden ("historical region")
• Lordship of Groningen ("historical polity")
• Northumberland ("historic county")
• Mithila region ("historical region")
• Low Countries ("historical region")
• Ural region ("historical region")
• Lordship of Biscay ("historic Basque territory")
• Caernarfonshire ("historic county")
• Suffolk, England ("historic county")
• Denbighshire ("historic county")
• Dobruja ("historical region")
• Old Toronto ("historic core")
• Cumberland ("historic county")
• Silesia ("historical region")
• Pokanoket region ("historical region")
• County of Barcelona ("historical polity")
• Lancashire ("historic county")
• Vivarais ("historical region")
• British Canada ("historical region")
• Meirionnydd ("historic county")
• Oyo Empire ("historical polity")
• Upper Burma ("historical region")
• Oude ("historical region")
• Mughal Subah of Awadh ("historical region")
• Kingdom of Toledo ("historical polity")
• central Greece ("historical region")
• Corinthia
• Dutch Gold Coast ("historical region")
• Arakan ("historical region")
• Dumfriesshire ("historic county")
• Ettrick Forest
• Ladoga Karelia ("historical region")
• Volga region ("historical region")
• Tenasserim ("historical region")
• southern Slovakia ("historical region")
• Podlasie ("historical region")
• Eastern Georgia ("historical region")
• Alnwick Castle grounds ("historic landscape")
• Smithfield district, Orange Free State ("historical geographic region")
• Eastern Poland ("historical region")
• Kingdom of Murcia ("historical polity")
• Dhundhar ("historical region")
• Douglasdale
• Galloway
• Mesopotamia ("historical region")
• Yamato polity ("historical polity")
• Merwara region ("historical region")
• Mount Lebanon
• Somerset ("historic county")
• Southern provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands ("historical region")
• Rhineland ("historical region")
• Realm of the Four Parts ("historical region")
• Malwa ("historical region")
• Kresy ("historical region")
• Wartheland ("historical region")
• Oxford County, Massachusetts ("historical jurisdiction")
• Zazzau Emirate ("historical polity")
• Cappadocia ("historical region")
• Mother Lode region
• Velay ("historical region")
• Eupen-Malmedy region ("historical region")
• Alsace-Lorraine ("historical region")
• Connacht ("historical region")
• Northern Greece ("historical region")
• Old Northwest
• Mewar
• Matabeleland ("historical region")
• Sudetenland ("historical region")
• Caria ("historical region")
• Huntingdonshire ("historic county")
• Phrygia ("historical region")
• Dyfed ("historic county")
• Lusatia ("historical region")
• southern Russia ("historical region")
• Collasuyu ("historical region")
• Bithynia ("historical region")
• Berwickshire ("historic county")
• Pontus ("historical region")
• Lycia ("historical region")
• Suffolk ("historic county")
• County of Bentheim ("historic county")
• Northern Netherlands ("historical region")
• Galatia ("historical region")
• Laconia ("historical region")
• Champaran ("historical region")
• Berkshire, England ("historic county")
• Burgundian Netherlands ("historical polity")
• Median Empire ("historical polity")
• Perea ("historical region")
• ancient Italy ("historical region")
• Mazovia ("historical region")
• Kingdom of Kashi ("historical polity")
• County of Surrey (Jamaica) ("historic county")
• Albany, Scotland
• Svealand ("historical region")
• Spanish West Indies ("historical region")
• Anatolia ("historical region")
• Bengal Subah ("historical region")
• Khorasan ("historical region")
• Genoese colonies in Crimea ("historical region")
• Uckermark ("historical region")
• Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
• Russian Partition of Poland ("historical region")
• Nile Valley cultural landscape ("historical region")
• First Republic of Venezuela ("historical polity")
• Lorraine ("historical region")
• Great Britain ("historical region")
• Burgundy ("historical region")
• American South (mid-20th century civil rights era) ("historical region-period")
• Thrace ("historical region")
• Kingdom of Benin ("historical polity")
• Racha ("historical region")
• Italian Somaliland ("historical region")
• Saguia el-Hamra ("historical region")
• Attica region ("historical region")
• Oudh ("historical region")
• Banda Oriental ("historical region")
• southern Poland ("historical region")
• Lower Nubia ("historical region")
• Attica ("historical region")
• First Hellenic Republic ("historical polity")
• Portuguese America ("historical region")
• Elis ("historical region")
• Demak Sultanate ("historical polity")
• Right-bank Ukraine ("historical region")
• Upper Peru ("historical region")
• Transylvania ("historical region")
• Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria ("historical polity")
• Wallachia ("historical region")
• Eastern Crimea ("historical region")
• Magnesia ("historical region")
• Principality of Guria ("historical polity")
• Navarre ("historical region")
• Maine ("historical region")
• Hopei–Chahar region ("historical region")
• Ingria ("historical region")
• Palestine
• Shan States ("historical region")
• Italian Empire ("historical polity")
• Colonial America ("region in history")
• New Galicia ("historical region")
• Swedish Livonia ("historical region")
• autonomous community of Castile and León ("historical region")
• Nassau
• Yorkshire ("historic county")
• Orissa ("historical region")
• Palmyrene region ("historical region")
• Cambridgeshire, England ("historic county")
• Artland cultural landscape
• Bavaria ("historical region")
• Vogtland ("historical region")
• Germania ("historical region")
• Marwar
• Transjordanian territories of Israel ("historical region")
• Udarata (Up-Country) ("historical region")
• Merionethshire ("historic county")
• Río de Oro ("historical region")
• British West Indies ("historical region")
• historic county of Middlesex ("historic county")
• Liptov ("historical region")
• Huizhou (historical region) ("historical region")
• Capcir ("historical region")
• County Palatine of Chester ("historic county")
• Sikh Confederacy ("historical polity")
• Bukovina ("historical region")
• Raquette Lake region
• Western Belarus ("historical region")
• Italian Libya ("historical region")
• Hainaut ("historical region")
• Julian March ("historical region")
• Great Moravia ("historical polity")
• Twente ("historical region")
• Bács-Bodrog County ("historic county")
• Colony and Dominion of Virginia ("historical polity")
• Northwest Russia ("historical region")
• County Down ("historic county")
• Franken ("historical region")
• Gilead ("historical region")
• Greater Boston parkway system ("historic landscape")
• Left Bank of the Rhine ("historical region")
• Racha-Lechkhumi
• historic county of Glamorgan ("historic county")
• Westmorland, England ("historic county")
• Oversticht ("historical region")
• British West Africa ("historical region")
• Meglen region ("historical region")
• Dumbartonshire ("historic county")
• County of Nice ("historical region")
• Czech lands ("historical region")
• Wampanoag homelands
• Volhynia ("historical region")
• American South (19th and early 20th centuries) ("historical region")
• Kahuripan ("historical polity")
• Bačka ("historical region")
• Anshan ("historical region")
• M’zab region of Algeria
• Nam Kỳ ("historical region")
• Mačva region ("historical region")
• Samogitia ("historical region")
• Telemark
• Left-bank Ukraine ("historical region")
• Magna Graecia ("historical region")
• Garhwal ("historical region")
• Gevgelija region ("historical region")
• Gallura ("historical region")
• Orava ("historical region")
• Dutch America ("historical region")
• Achaea ("historical region")
• Lydia ("historical region")
• Lothian
• Slovenian Littoral ("historical region")
• Tessin ("historical region")
• Kyrenaïkē ("historical region")
• Heptanese ("historical region")
• Punt ("historical region")
• historic county of Kent ("historic county")
• Indo-Greek Kingdoms ("historical polity")
• Lower Burgundy ("historical polity")
• Ta Shemau ("historical region")
• Dalmatia ("historical region")
• East Anglia
• Hausaland ("historical region")
• Black Belt ("historical region")
• Asia Minor ("historical region")
• Crusader states ("historical region")
• Shfela (Judean lowlands) ("historical region")
• Carrick
• UNESCO World Heritage site of Upper Svaneti
• Outremer ("historical region")
• Brno region ("historical region")
• Dutch Angola ("historical region")
• Lauragais