Section: General Variables
Subsection: General

Polity Preceding Entity

The preceding entity of a polity.  
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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]
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Variable Definition
preceding_entity The preceding entity (or the largest settlement) of a polity.

# Succeeding Polity Preceding Entity Description   Edit
1
(Aro)
uncoded
None
2
(Kanem)
uncoded
None
3
(Mossi)
uncoded
None
4
(Allada)
uncoded
None
5
(Hausa bakwai)
uncoded
None
6
(Durrani Empire)
Afsharid Dynasty
None
7
(Erligang)
Erlitou
None
8
(Middle and Late Nok)
uncoded
None
9
(Greco-Bactrian Kingdom)
Seleucid Empire
None
10
(Early Merovingian)
Roman Late Antiquity
None
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