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Census records show the population as 923,944 in 1870, which had grown by 1930 to almost 7 million. §REF§US Census Bureau 1930: xxi, 26. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB§REF§ " }, { "id": 755, "polity": { "id": 575, "name": "us_united_states_of_america_reconstruction", "long_name": "Us Reconstruction-Progressive", "start_year": 1866, "end_year": 1933 }, "year_from": 1910, "year_to": 1910, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 4766883, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 4766883, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants.New York was by far the settlement with the largest population during this period. Census records show the population as 923,944 in 1870, which had grown by 1930 to almost 7 million. §REF§US Census Bureau 1930: xxi, 26. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB§REF§ " }, { "id": 756, "polity": { "id": 575, "name": "us_united_states_of_america_reconstruction", "long_name": "Us Reconstruction-Progressive", "start_year": 1866, "end_year": 1933 }, "year_from": 1920, "year_to": 1920, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 5620048, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 5620048, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants.New York was by far the settlement with the largest population during this period. Census records show the population as 923,944 in 1870, which had grown by 1930 to almost 7 million. §REF§US Census Bureau 1930: xxi, 26. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB§REF§ " }, { "id": 757, "polity": { "id": 575, "name": "us_united_states_of_america_reconstruction", "long_name": "Us Reconstruction-Progressive", "start_year": 1866, "end_year": 1933 }, "year_from": 1930, "year_to": 1930, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 6930446, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 6930446, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants.New York was by far the settlement with the largest population during this period. Census records show the population as 923,944 in 1870, which had grown by 1930 to almost 7 million. §REF§US Census Bureau 1930: xxi, 26. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB§REF§ " }, { "id": 758, "polity": { "id": 560, "name": "bo_tiwanaku_2", "long_name": "Late Tiwanaku", "start_year": 800, "end_year": 1149 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 20000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 20000, "comment": null, "description": " “It is always difficult to estimate the population of ancient cities. Nevertheless, many such attempts have been made concerning Tiwanaku. Jeffrey R. Parsons wrote in 1968 that Tiwanaku could have had between 5,200 and 10,500 inhabitants. He based this estimate on the observed population densities of contemporary Mexican villages. However, he erroneously thought that Tiwanaku would have covered only 2.4 km2. David L. Browman suggested in 1978 that Tiwanaku could have had between 20,000 to 40,000 inhabitants (Browman 1978: 328). Recently, Ponce (2003: 387-388) estimated Tiwanaku’s maximum population to have reached c. 60,000–100,000 inhabitants. Another recent – and probably the best – estimate for the maximum population of Tiwanaku is Kolata’s (2003a: 15; 2003b: 200; see also Janusek 2004b: 128; 2004c: 183) 15,000–20,000 inhabitants.”§REF§(Korpisaari 2006: 57) Korpisaari, Antti. 2006. Death in the Bolivian High Plateau: Burials and Tiwanaku Society. Oxford: BAR Publishing. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/UPGSC7BF§REF§" }, { "id": 759, "polity": { "id": 576, "name": "us_chaco_bonito_3", "long_name": "Chaco Canyon - Late Bonito phase", "start_year": 1101, "end_year": 1140 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 4500, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 6000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants. “In the early 1980s, Alden Hayes tackled the population question: How many people had lived in the great houses? He based his calculations on the average size of a Chacoan family and the number of rooms a family would occupy. His average family consisted of 4 or 5 people. This figure is the average size of Puebloan families in recent historic times, from 1744 to 1952. It may have been lower 1,000 years ago, due to a higher rate of infant death, but was unlikely to have been higher. Hayes assumed that every family occupied three rooms. He also figured that at any period of time some of the rooms were abandoned or filled with rubbish. Taking all those variables into account, he came up with a peak population of 5,652 people. Most archaeologists agree on the range of 4,500 to 6,000 people. Thomas Windes took a different approach. He estimated the number of families by counting the firepits in the great houses. He reasoned that a firepit was essential for cooking and heating, especially during the cold winters, so the number of firepits would reflect the number of families. Most of these hearths are found in groundstory rooms. Windes suggested that the upper rooms were left empty or were used for storage. He figured that the maximum population might have been only 2,000 people.”§REF§(Vivian and Anderson 2002: 31-32) Vivian, R. Gwinn and Anderson, Margaret. 2002. Chaco Canyon, Digging for the Past. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/996XW2NW§REF§ “Chaco Canyon villagers reached their maximum population of around 5,500 people by 1050 CE.”§REF§(Snow et al 2020: 195) Snow, Dean R., Gonlin, Nancy, and Siegel, Peter E. 2020. The Archaeology of Native North America, 2nd ed. London; New York: Routledge. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/5T4C9IQT§REF§" }, { "id": 760, "polity": { "id": 563, "name": "us_antebellum", "long_name": "Antebellum US", "start_year": 1776, "end_year": 1865 }, "year_from": 1800, "year_to": 1800, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 25000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 25000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants.In 1800 New York and Philadelphia were the only cities to have a population of more than 25,000 people. By 1850 New York had grown to have 500,000 inhabitants. §REF§Volo and Volo 2004: 4. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.§REF§ " }, { "id": 761, "polity": { "id": 563, "name": "us_antebellum", "long_name": "Antebellum US", "start_year": 1776, "end_year": 1865 }, "year_from": 1850, "year_to": 1850, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 500000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 500000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants.In 1800 New York and Philadelphia were the only cities to have a population of more than 25,000 people. By 1850 New York had grown to have 500,000 inhabitants. §REF§Volo and Volo 2004: 4. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.§REF§ " }, { "id": 762, "polity": { "id": 591, "name": "gt_tikal_late_classic", "long_name": "Late Classic Tikal", "start_year": 555, "end_year": 869 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 60000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 60000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants. “No sight gives a better impression of the past glories of Maya civilisation than the towering ruins of Tikal. At its 8th-century peak a score of red-painted pyramids dominated the heart of a dispersed metropolis housing as many as 60,000 people.”§REF§(Martin and Grube 2000: 25) Martin, Simon and Grube, Nikolai. 2000. Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya. London; New York: Thames & Hudson. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/5WIIDVRJ§REF§" }, { "id": 763, "polity": { "id": 302, "name": "gb_tudor_stuart", "long_name": "England Tudor-Stuart", "start_year": 1486, "end_year": 1689 }, "year_from": 1520, "year_to": 1520, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 60000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 60000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants. London was by far the most densely populated city in England – indeed it was the largest in Europe. The population of the city was 50,000 in 1485 and grew to around 500,000 inhabitants by 1700. The next largest cities of Norwich, Bristol, Coventry and York had less than 10,000 inhabitants each.§REF§(Bucholz et al 2013: 16, 29) Bucholz, Robert, Newton Key, and R.O. Bucholz. 2013. Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uvic/detail.action?docID=1166775. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/XQGJH96U§REF§ “In 1520 London was already far and away the greatest city in England with perhaps 60,000 people. By 1600 it had grown to about 200,000 people and by the end of the seventeenth century it would reach over half a million.”§REF§(Bucholz et al 2013: 194-195) Bucholz, Robert, Newton Key, and R.O. Bucholz. 2013. Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uvic/detail.action?docID=1166775. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/XQGJH96U§REF§" }, { "id": 764, "polity": { "id": 302, "name": "gb_tudor_stuart", "long_name": "England Tudor-Stuart", "start_year": 1486, "end_year": 1689 }, "year_from": 1600, "year_to": 1600, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 200000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 200000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants. London was by far the most densely populated city in England – indeed it was the largest in Europe. The population of the city was 50,000 in 1485 and grew to around 500,000 inhabitants by 1700. The next largest cities of Norwich, Bristol, Coventry and York had less than 10,000 inhabitants each.§REF§(Bucholz et al 2013: 16, 29) Bucholz, Robert, Newton Key, and R.O. Bucholz. 2013. Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uvic/detail.action?docID=1166775. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/XQGJH96U§REF§ “In 1520 London was already far and away the greatest city in England with perhaps 60,000 people. By 1600 it had grown to about 200,000 people and by the end of the seventeenth century it would reach over half a million.”§REF§(Bucholz et al 2013: 194-195) Bucholz, Robert, Newton Key, and R.O. Bucholz. 2013. Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uvic/detail.action?docID=1166775. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/XQGJH96U§REF§" }, { "id": 765, "polity": { "id": 606, "name": "gb_anglo_saxon_2", "long_name": "Anglo-Saxon England II", "start_year": 927, "end_year": 1065 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 12000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 12000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants. The royal borough of London in former Wessex likely had around 12,000 inhabitants by the end of the polity period. It covered 128 hectares whereas others were around 40 hectares.§REF§(Roberts et al 2014: 34) Roberts, Clayton, Roberts, F. David, and Bisson, Douglas. 2014. ‘Anglo-Saxon England: 450–1066’, in A History of England, Volume 1, 6th ed. Routledge. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/P2IHD9U3§REF§§REF§(Higham and Ryan 2013: 25) Higham, Nicholas J. Ryan, M. J. 2013. The Anglo-Saxon World. Yale University Press. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/DEXKYD28§REF§" }, { "id": 766, "polity": { "id": 567, "name": "at_habsburg_2", "long_name": "Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II", "start_year": 1649, "end_year": 1918 }, "year_from": 1817, "year_to": 1817, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 250000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 250000, "comment": null, "description": " “Vienna’s population increased from around 250,000 in 1817 to 357,000 in 1848.”§REF§(Judson 2016: 112) Judson, Pieter M. 2016. The Habsburg Empire: A New History. Cambridge, USA; London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/BN5TQZBW§REF§ " }, { "id": 767, "polity": { "id": 567, "name": "at_habsburg_2", "long_name": "Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II", "start_year": 1649, "end_year": 1918 }, "year_from": 1848, "year_to": 1848, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 357000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 357000, "comment": null, "description": " “Vienna’s population increased from around 250,000 in 1817 to 357,000 in 1848.”§REF§(Judson 2016: 112) Judson, Pieter M. 2016. The Habsburg Empire: A New History. Cambridge, USA; London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/BN5TQZBW§REF§ " }, { "id": 768, "polity": { "id": 295, "name": "tm_khwarezmid_emp", "long_name": "Khwarezmid Empire", "start_year": 1157, "end_year": 1231 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": null, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": null, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants. This has not been mentioned in the sources consulted.Inhabitants.<br>\"Estimates of the death rate at Samarkand, which was treated relatively mildly, approach three quarters of the population. Though thirty thousand crafts-people were taken captive and thousands of women enslaved, the death toll still stood at seventy thousand. Juvayni, the Mongol’s Nishapur-born court historian, reported that a group of surviving noblemen at Merv counted corpses for thirteen days and nights and arrived at a total of 1.3 million dead.\"§REF§(Starr 2013) Starr, S. Frederick. 2013. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press. Princeton.§REF§ - 1 million counted per day. if group of noblemen numbered 24 people, 41,500 counted per day. 12 hour day, 3450 per hour, 57.5 per minute. Not very realistic figure unless group was much larger and/or used a procedure for estimating large numbers of corpses.<br>Otrar on the Syr Darya: when Mongols massacred inhabitants in 1219 CE there were about 100,000.§REF§(Starr 2013) Starr, S. Frederick. 2013. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press. Princeton.§REF§<br>\"Central Asian cities were densely populated - one expert estimates that 230–270 persons per acre was typical - and the footprint of four-fifths of the houses was as small as 380 square feet, even though they typically housed up to six people on two or three floors.\"§REF§(Starr 2013) Starr, S. Frederick. 2013. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press. Princeton.§REF§ Expert cited: K. M. Baybakov (1986). Also recommends \"O. G. Bolshakov’s estimates of population densities in Merv, Bukhara, Termez, etc.\" §REF§K. M. Baybakov, Srednevekovaia gorodskaia kultura iuzhnogo Kazakhstana i Semirechia (Moscow, 1986), 88§REF§§REF§O. G. Bolshakov, Goroda iuzhnogo Kazakhstana i Semirechiia (vi–xiii v.) (Alma Ata, 1973), 256–68.§REF§<br>Balkh: urban walls enclosed 1000 acres.§REF§(Starr 2013) Starr, S. Frederick. 2013. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press. Princeton.§REF§ (Undated reference for Central Asia in Middle Ages)<br>Afrasiab: \"Afrasiab, the predecessor to Samarkand ... covered over five hundred densely built acres.\"§REF§(Starr 2013) Starr, S. Frederick. 2013. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press. Princeton.§REF§ (Undated reference for Central Asia in Middle Ages)<br>Termez: \"the river port of Tirmidh (Termez), which covered a thousand acres on the Uzbek side of the Amu Darya\".§REF§(Starr 2013) Starr, S. Frederick. 2013. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press. Princeton.§REF§ (Undated reference for Central Asia in Middle Ages)<br>Merv: \"an enormous urban complex.\"§REF§(Starr 2013) Starr, S. Frederick. 2013. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press. Princeton.§REF§ (Undated reference for Central Asia in Middle Ages)" }, { "id": 769, "polity": { "id": 561, "name": "us_hohokam_culture", "long_name": "Hohokam Culture", "start_year": 300, "end_year": 1500 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": null, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": null, "comment": null, "description": "During the peak ‘classic’ period of the Hohokam culture (c. 1100-1400) some of the larger villages had tens of thousands of inhabitants.§REF§“Hohokam Culture (U.S. National Park Service)”. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/34YMDDCN/library§REF§ " }, { "id": 770, "polity": { "id": 797, "name": "de_empire_1", "long_name": "Holy Roman Empire - Ottonian-Salian Dynasty", "start_year": 919, "end_year": 1125 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 100000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 100000, "comment": null, "description": "Inhabitants. Northern Italy had the largest cities in continental Europe (except for Paris which was not part of the HRE). Milan, Genoa, Venice, Naples, Florence and Palermo were likely to have exceeded 100,000 inhabitants in the early fourteenth century.§REF§Power 2006: 73. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/4V4WE3ZK.§REF§" }, { "id": 771, "polity": { "id": 565, "name": "at_habsburg_1", "long_name": "Austria - Habsburg Dynasty I", "start_year": 1454, "end_year": 1648 }, "year_from": 1500, "year_to": 1500, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 20000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 20000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants. Approximate figures for the population of Vienna.§REF§(‘European Urban Population, 700 - 2000’) ‘European Urban Population, 700 - 2000’. https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:197830/tab/2. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/8E2PTFU3§REF§" }, { "id": 772, "polity": { "id": 565, "name": "at_habsburg_1", "long_name": "Austria - Habsburg Dynasty I", "start_year": 1454, "end_year": 1648 }, "year_from": 1550, "year_to": 1550, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 32000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 32000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants. Approximate figures for the population of Vienna.§REF§(‘European Urban Population, 700 - 2000’) ‘European Urban Population, 700 - 2000’. https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:197830/tab/2. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/8E2PTFU3§REF§" }, { "id": 773, "polity": { "id": 565, "name": "at_habsburg_1", "long_name": "Austria - Habsburg Dynasty I", "start_year": 1454, "end_year": 1648 }, "year_from": 1600, "year_to": 1600, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 50000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 50000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants. Approximate figures for the population of Vienna.§REF§(‘European Urban Population, 700 - 2000’) ‘European Urban Population, 700 - 2000’. https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:197830/tab/2. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/8E2PTFU3§REF§" }, { "id": 774, "polity": { "id": 351, "name": "am_artaxiad_dyn", "long_name": "Armenian Kingdom", "start_year": -188, "end_year": 6 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 100000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 100000, "comment": null, "description": " The population of Artaxiasata (Artaxata) may have reached around 100,000 inhabitants.§REF§Redgate 2000: 85. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/4RQ68NKA§REF§ However, it is not known if this was the largest settlement population as the other sources consulted have not mentioned this figure at all." }, { "id": 775, "polity": { "id": 573, "name": "ru_golden_horde", "long_name": "Golden Horde", "start_year": 1240, "end_year": 1440 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 75000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 75000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants.Sarai Berke on the Volga River (previously named Sarai Batu and located downstream) was the capital of the Golden Horde. At its peak it had around inhabitants.§REF§“Golden Horde”. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/VXQGWC6R§REF§ " }, { "id": 776, "polity": { "id": 587, "name": "gb_british_emp_1", "long_name": "British Empire I", "start_year": 1690, "end_year": 1849 }, "year_from": 1695, "year_to": 1695, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 80000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 80000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants.The largest settlement in the British Empire was the imperial capital of London, England. It was estimated to have around 80,000 people living there in 1695. In 1700 it had around 575,000 inhabitants, and 675,000 in 1750.§REF§(Porter 2000: 97-98) Porter, Roy. 2000. London: A Social History. London: Penguin UK. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/BUIF7ZRL§REF§ By 1811 it had more than doubled in population, recorded to have had around 1,050,000 inhabitants.§REF§( Colquhoun 1811: 45) Colquhoun, Patrik. 1814. Treatise on the Wealth, Power and Resources of the British Empire in Every Quarter of the World Etc. Jos. Mawman. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/3SNZA6FJ§REF§ And towards the end of this polity period, in 1841, it had grown to 1,873,676 inhabitants.§REF§(Chambers and Chambers 1847: 256. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/K77JRGEL.§REF§ " }, { "id": 777, "polity": { "id": 587, "name": "gb_british_emp_1", "long_name": "British Empire I", "start_year": 1690, "end_year": 1849 }, "year_from": 1700, "year_to": 1700, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 575000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 575000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants.The largest settlement in the British Empire was the imperial capital of London, England. It was estimated to have around 80,000 people living there in 1695. In 1700 it had around 575,000 inhabitants, and 675,000 in 1750.§REF§(Porter 2000: 97-98) Porter, Roy. 2000. London: A Social History. London: Penguin UK. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/BUIF7ZRL§REF§ By 1811 it had more than doubled in population, recorded to have had around 1,050,000 inhabitants.§REF§( Colquhoun 1811: 45) Colquhoun, Patrik. 1814. Treatise on the Wealth, Power and Resources of the British Empire in Every Quarter of the World Etc. Jos. Mawman. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/3SNZA6FJ§REF§ And towards the end of this polity period, in 1841, it had grown to 1,873,676 inhabitants.§REF§(Chambers and Chambers 1847: 256. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/K77JRGEL.§REF§ " }, { "id": 778, "polity": { "id": 587, "name": "gb_british_emp_1", "long_name": "British Empire I", "start_year": 1690, "end_year": 1849 }, "year_from": 1750, "year_to": 1750, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 675000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 675000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants.The largest settlement in the British Empire was the imperial capital of London, England. It was estimated to have around 80,000 people living there in 1695. In 1700 it had around 575,000 inhabitants, and 675,000 in 1750.§REF§(Porter 2000: 97-98) Porter, Roy. 2000. London: A Social History. London: Penguin UK. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/BUIF7ZRL§REF§ By 1811 it had more than doubled in population, recorded to have had around 1,050,000 inhabitants.§REF§( Colquhoun 1811: 45) Colquhoun, Patrik. 1814. Treatise on the Wealth, Power and Resources of the British Empire in Every Quarter of the World Etc. Jos. Mawman. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/3SNZA6FJ§REF§ And towards the end of this polity period, in 1841, it had grown to 1,873,676 inhabitants.§REF§(Chambers and Chambers 1847: 256. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/K77JRGEL.§REF§ " }, { "id": 779, "polity": { "id": 587, "name": "gb_british_emp_1", "long_name": "British Empire I", "start_year": 1690, "end_year": 1849 }, "year_from": 1811, "year_to": 1811, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 1050000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 1050000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants.The largest settlement in the British Empire was the imperial capital of London, England. It was estimated to have around 80,000 people living there in 1695. In 1700 it had around 575,000 inhabitants, and 675,000 in 1750.§REF§(Porter 2000: 97-98) Porter, Roy. 2000. London: A Social History. London: Penguin UK. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/BUIF7ZRL§REF§ By 1811 it had more than doubled in population, recorded to have had around 1,050,000 inhabitants.§REF§( Colquhoun 1811: 45) Colquhoun, Patrik. 1814. Treatise on the Wealth, Power and Resources of the British Empire in Every Quarter of the World Etc. Jos. Mawman. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/3SNZA6FJ§REF§ And towards the end of this polity period, in 1841, it had grown to 1,873,676 inhabitants.§REF§(Chambers and Chambers 1847: 256. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/K77JRGEL.§REF§ " }, { "id": 780, "polity": { "id": 587, "name": "gb_british_emp_1", "long_name": "British Empire I", "start_year": 1690, "end_year": 1849 }, "year_from": 1841, "year_to": 1841, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 1873676, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 1873676, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants.The largest settlement in the British Empire was the imperial capital of London, England. It was estimated to have around 80,000 people living there in 1695. In 1700 it had around 575,000 inhabitants, and 675,000 in 1750.§REF§(Porter 2000: 97-98) Porter, Roy. 2000. London: A Social History. London: Penguin UK. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/BUIF7ZRL§REF§ By 1811 it had more than doubled in population, recorded to have had around 1,050,000 inhabitants.§REF§( Colquhoun 1811: 45) Colquhoun, Patrik. 1814. Treatise on the Wealth, Power and Resources of the British Empire in Every Quarter of the World Etc. Jos. Mawman. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/3SNZA6FJ§REF§ And towards the end of this polity period, in 1841, it had grown to 1,873,676 inhabitants.§REF§(Chambers and Chambers 1847: 256. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/K77JRGEL.§REF§ " }, { "id": 781, "polity": { "id": 574, "name": "gb_anglo_saxon_1", "long_name": "Anglo-Saxon England I", "start_year": 410, "end_year": 926 }, "year_from": 700, "year_to": 700, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 5000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 5000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants. Hamwic in Southampton (then part of Wessex) is estimated to have had a population of around 5,000 people during King Ine’s rule, 688-726 CE. §REF§(Yorke 1990: 139) York, Barbara. 1990. Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203447307. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/YXTNCWJN§REF§" }, { "id": 782, "polity": { "id": 566, "name": "fr_france_napoleonic", "long_name": "Napoleonic France", "start_year": 1816, "end_year": 1870 }, "year_from": 1815, "year_to": 1815, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 750000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 750000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants.In 1815 Paris had around 750,000 inhabitants but grew to 1.5million by 1850.§REF§Clapham 1955: 32. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/2QKQJQM3§REF§§REF§Crook 2002: 45. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/29D9EQQE§REF§ " }, { "id": 783, "polity": { "id": 566, "name": "fr_france_napoleonic", "long_name": "Napoleonic France", "start_year": 1816, "end_year": 1870 }, "year_from": 1850, "year_to": 1850, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 1500000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 1500000, "comment": null, "description": " Inhabitants.In 1815 Paris had around 750,000 inhabitants but grew to 1.5million by 1850.§REF§Clapham 1955: 32. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/2QKQJQM3§REF§§REF§Crook 2002: 45. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/29D9EQQE§REF§ " }, { "id": 784, "polity": { "id": 567, "name": "at_habsburg_2", "long_name": "Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II", "start_year": 1649, "end_year": 1918 }, "year_from": 1873, "year_to": 1873, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 758807, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 758807, "comment": null, "description": "Inhabitants. “For example, in 1873 the city districts of Lower Austria including Vienna with a civil population of 758,807 received 17 Deputies, whereas Bohemia and Moravia with 1,518,260 were allocated 45.”§REF§(Boyer 2022: 117) Boyer, John W. 2022. Austria, 1867–1955. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/CG3P4KKD§REF§ “From 1859 to 1917, for example, the Viennese built 460,000 new apartments— a number that hardly kept pace with the size of the population, which doubled between 1870 and 1900, reaching two million in 1910.”§REF§(Judson 2016: 349) Judson, Pieter M. 2016. The Habsburg Empire: A New History. Cambridge, USA; London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/BN5TQZBW§REF§" }, { "id": 785, "polity": { "id": 567, "name": "at_habsburg_2", "long_name": "Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II", "start_year": 1649, "end_year": 1918 }, "year_from": 1910, "year_to": 1910, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 2000000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 2000000, "comment": null, "description": "Inhabitants. “For example, in 1873 the city districts of Lower Austria including Vienna with a civil population of 758,807 received 17 Deputies, whereas Bohemia and Moravia with 1,518,260 were allocated 45.”§REF§(Boyer 2022: 117) Boyer, John W. 2022. Austria, 1867–1955. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/CG3P4KKD§REF§ “From 1859 to 1917, for example, the Viennese built 460,000 new apartments— a number that hardly kept pace with the size of the population, which doubled between 1870 and 1900, reaching two million in 1910.”§REF§(Judson 2016: 349) Judson, Pieter M. 2016. The Habsburg Empire: A New History. Cambridge, USA; London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/BN5TQZBW§REF§" }, { "id": 786, "polity": { "id": 601, "name": "ru_soviet_union", "long_name": "Soviet Union", "start_year": 1918, "end_year": 1991 }, "year_from": 1926, "year_to": 1939, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 3641500, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 4131633, "comment": null, "description": "On 12 March 1918, the capital was transferred back to Moscow, following a Soviet government resolution. And in 1922, while remaining the capital of the Russian Republic, Moscow also became the capital of the Soviet Union. During this period, the city underwent intensive urban development. With an increase in population came the development of public transport. Regular bus routes appeared in Moscow in 1924, and the first trolleybuses came along in 1933. In May 1935, the metro was launched.§REF§“City / Moscow City Web Site,” accessed November 23, 2023, https://www.mos.ru/en/city/about/.)<a href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/BTZDI24F\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"fw-bolder\"> <b> Zotero link: BTZDI24F</b></a>§REF§ census data §REF§(Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Всесоюзная Перепись Населения )<a href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/MZMZFQN2\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"fw-bolder\"> <b> Zotero link: MZMZFQN2</b></a>§REF§" }, { "id": 788, "polity": { "id": 601, "name": "ru_soviet_union", "long_name": "Soviet Union", "start_year": 1918, "end_year": 1991 }, "year_from": 1939, "year_to": 1959, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 4131633, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 5045905, "comment": null, "description": "" }, { "id": 789, "polity": { "id": 601, "name": "ru_soviet_union", "long_name": "Soviet Union", "start_year": 1918, "end_year": 1991 }, "year_from": 1959, "year_to": 1989, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 5045905, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 8769117, "comment": null, "description": "" }, { "id": 792, "polity": { "id": 571, "name": "ru_romanov_dyn_2", "long_name": "Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty II", "start_year": 1776, "end_year": 1917 }, "year_from": 1800, "year_to": 1850, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 336000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 485000, "comment": null, "description": "The largest settlement was Saint Petersburg from 1800 to 1910.§REF§B. R. Mitchell, “Population and Vital Statistics,” in International Historical Statistics: Europe 1750–1993, ed. B. R. Mitchell, International Historical Statistics (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1998), 1–142.<a href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/8DTTVHAF\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"fw-bolder\"> <b> Zotero link: 8DTTVHAF</b></a>§REF§" }, { "id": 793, "polity": { "id": 571, "name": "ru_romanov_dyn_2", "long_name": "Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty II", "start_year": 1776, "end_year": 1917 }, "year_from": 1850, "year_to": 1870, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 485000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 667000, "comment": null, "description": "" }, { "id": 794, "polity": { "id": 571, "name": "ru_romanov_dyn_2", "long_name": "Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty II", "start_year": 1776, "end_year": 1917 }, "year_from": 1870, "year_to": 1890, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 667000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 1003000, "comment": null, "description": "" }, { "id": 795, "polity": { "id": 571, "name": "ru_romanov_dyn_2", "long_name": "Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty II", "start_year": 1776, "end_year": 1917 }, "year_from": 1890, "year_to": 1910, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 1003000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 1962000, "comment": null, "description": "The largest settlement was Sankt Petersburg from 1800 to 1910.§REF§B. R. Mitchell, “Population and Vital Statistics,” in International Historical Statistics: Europe 1750–1993, ed. B. R. Mitchell, International Historical Statistics (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1998), 1–142.<a href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/8DTTVHAF\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"fw-bolder\"> <b> Zotero link: 8DTTVHAF</b></a>§REF§" }, { "id": 796, "polity": { "id": 600, "name": "ru_romanov_dyn_1", "long_name": "Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty I", "start_year": 1614, "end_year": 1775 }, "year_from": 1638, "year_to": 1638, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 200000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 200000, "comment": null, "description": "Moscow was the largest city in terms of population\r\n\r\n1638 numbers§REF§И.С Беляев, Росписной список города Москвы 1638 года (Москва: Типография Императорского Московского Университета, 1911).<a href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/VFVHDC84\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"fw-bolder\"> <b> Zotero link: VFVHDC84</b></a>§REF§" }, { "id": 797, "polity": { "id": 359, "name": "ye_ziyad_dyn", "long_name": "Yemen Ziyadid Dynasty", "start_year": 822, "end_year": 1037 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": null, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": null, "comment": "Inhabitants.<br>Sanaa<br> 1050 CE 'a thousand houses'.<br> 'the time of al-Rashid': 'one hundred thousand' houses.<br>A Zaidi chronicler reported that \"From [1014-1056] ruin prevailed in Sanaa and elsewhere in the country of Yemen ... the inhabitants became so extenuated that they dispersed in all directions. The city fell into ruin. Construction declined to the point where there were only a thousand houses, whereas in the time of al-Rashid there had been one hundred thousand.\" <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/GIDWD7R3\">[Stookey 1978, p. 57]</a>", "description": "Likely unknown. \"It remains to be seen whether the city can be judged to have been a relatively open settlement in its hey-day, connecting with a heavily settled countryside, or whether it was compact and confined within walls, in contrast to the open desert beyond, in the way in which most guide books prefer to see it.\" §REF§(Keall 1989: 62) Keall, E. 1989. A Few Facts About Zabid. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies , 1989, Vol. 19, Proceedings of the Twenty Second SEMINAR FOR ARABIAN STUDIES held at Oxford on 26th - 28th July 1988 (1989), pp. 61-69. Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/NHAHN75U/library§REF§" }, { "id": 798, "polity": { "id": 134, "name": "af_ghur_principality", "long_name": "Ghur Principality", "start_year": 1025, "end_year": 1215 }, "year_from": 1025, "year_to": 1175, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 5417, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 19500, "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT", "description": "Thomas (2018) provides a broad range of estimates for the Ghurid capital of Firuzkuh or Jam.\r\n\r\n\"The estimates suggest a population of several thousand people living in Early Islamic Jam, a figure significantly larger than that found in modern villages in the area. This is to be expected if Jam was the Ghurid summer capital of Firzkuh, but it raises questions as to how a population of this magnitude was sustained and why sites of a comparable size do not re-emerge following the Mongol campaigns.\"§REF§(Thomas 2018, no page number) Thomas, D. C. 2018. The Ebb and Flow of the Ghūrid Empire. Sydney University Press. Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/WP4SXX74/library§REF§" }, { "id": 799, "polity": { "id": 134, "name": "af_ghur_principality", "long_name": "Ghur Principality", "start_year": 1025, "end_year": 1215 }, "year_from": 1176, "year_to": 1215, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 100000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 400000, "comment": "Inhabitants.<br>{300,000; 50,000}: 1200 CE not sure if Herat was within polity.<br>Probably Herat? Contemporary estimates in range of 1-2 million but recent scholars much less. \"Petrushevskii himself estimated that the population of Herat, which he considered to be one of the largest cities in the Middle East at the beginning of the thirteenth century, was 'at least several hundred thousand.'\" <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/4G2CAI36\">[Subtelny 2007, p. 121]</a> M.E. Masson's estimate of more than half a million \"seems unreasonable when compared with estimates for western Iranian towns made by Portuguese and Italian visitors during roughly the same period.\" Lower range of estimates for medieval Herat are \"from 45,500 to 60,000 for the city proper; 140,000 to 160,000 for the province (vilayat) of Herat; and 300,000 to 400,000 for the greater Herat region.\" <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/4G2CAI36\">[Subtelny 2007, pp. 121-122]</a>", "description": "Herat and Ghazna both conquered in 1175. Thomas§REF§(Thomas 2018, no page number) Thomas, D. C. 2018. The Ebb and Flow of the Ghūrid Empire. Sydney University Press. Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/WP4SXX74/library§REF§ indicates 1,000 hectares for both cities. Applying the estimates he uses to calculate the population of the Ghurids' summer capital--and which he writes broadly apply to early Islamic cities--we arrive at a population of between 100,000 and 400,000." }, { "id": 800, "polity": { "id": 548, "name": "it_italy_k", "long_name": "Italian Kingdom Late Antiquity", "start_year": 476, "end_year": 489 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 50000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 500000, "comment": null, "description": "\"How large were Ostrogothic cities? In the absence of any definite surveys, all we have are estimates. Rome’s population, which may have once been as high as 1,000,000, might have been down to 300,000 in the late 4th century and down to 100,000 by 500, but it was still by far the largest city in Italy. Under Theoderic the population of Ravenna swelled to its largest size, perhaps as large as 10,000. Naples, too, may have had a population as large as 10,000 at this time. We know little about the cities of northern Italy, except that the most notable—Aquileia, Pavia, and Milan—and doubtless others had been sacked by the Huns in 452. What this might have done to their infrastructures and populations is not entirely clear, but certainly Theoderic at least did much to rebuild Pavia.\"§REF§(Deliyannis 2016: 251) Deliyannis, D. M. 2016. Urban Life and Culture. In Arnold, Bjornlie and Sessa (eds) A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy pp. 234-262. Brill. Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/JG677MNK/item-list§REF§\r\n\r\n\"The remarkable downward trajectory of the city of Rome’s population, from ca. 500,000 in 400 to less than 50,000 after the Gothic War (535–54) is perhaps an extreme example.\" §REF§(Arnold, Bjornlie and Sessa 2016: 9) Arnold, Bjornlie and Sessa, 2016. Introduction. In Arnold, Bjornlie and Sessa (eds) A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy pp. 1-16. Brill. Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/IPS45IXC/item-list§REF§" }, { "id": 801, "polity": { "id": 409, "name": "bd_bengal_sultanate", "long_name": "Bengal Sultanate", "start_year": 1338, "end_year": 1538 }, "year_from": 1350, "year_to": 1350, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 100000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 100000, "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT", "description": null }, { "id": 802, "polity": { "id": 409, "name": "bd_bengal_sultanate", "long_name": "Bengal Sultanate", "start_year": 1338, "end_year": 1538 }, "year_from": 1450, "year_to": 1450, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 150000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 150000, "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT", "description": null }, { "id": 803, "polity": { "id": 409, "name": "bd_bengal_sultanate", "long_name": "Bengal Sultanate", "start_year": 1338, "end_year": 1538 }, "year_from": 1500, "year_to": 1500, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 200000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 200000, "comment": "Inhabitants. Population of Gaur. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/D55F2NG3\">[Chase-Dunn_Willard 0]</a>", "description": null }, { "id": 806, "polity": { "id": 778, "name": "in_east_india_co", "long_name": "British East India Company", "start_year": 1757, "end_year": 1858 }, "year_from": 1819, "year_to": 1819, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 179917, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 179917, "comment": "Calcutta. Definite figures are almost impossible to find as annual census' differed so greatly and other contemporary estimations to determine the population yielded differing results depending on who carried them out. There are no available records for those living in huts which at the time was the common dwelling for many indigenous people. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/83IG9AXH\">[Sreemani_Bhattacharya 2020]</a> The numbers listed above appear to be the generally accepted figures according to Sreemani. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/83IG9AXH\">[Sreemani_Bhattacharya 2020]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 808, "polity": { "id": 781, "name": "bd_nawabs_of_bengal", "long_name": "Nawabs of Bengal", "start_year": 1717, "end_year": 1757 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 500000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 500000, "comment": "Assuming that Dhaka was still the largest city after centuries of being the Bengal ruler's royal capital, by 1700 the population of Dhaka was estimated at 5 lakh (an India numbering system equating to 100,000). <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/G88NTW2D\">[Ray_Sreemani 2020]</a>", "description": null }, { "id": 809, "polity": { "id": 250, "name": "cn_qin_emp", "long_name": "Qin Empire", "start_year": -338, "end_year": -207 }, "year_from": -300, "year_to": -300, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 350000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 350000, "comment": null, "description": "People. Linzi: 300 BCE. Luoyang: 200-100 BCE. §REF§(Modelski 2003, 42)§REF§<br>Xianyang (capital): 100,000: 300-200 BCE. §REF§(Modelski 2003, 42)§REF§<br>Note: in an attempt to end feudalism, \"Legalist\" chief minister Li Si (237-208 BCE) deported 120,000 families to capital, Xiangyang §REF§(Roberts 2003, 36)§REF§§REF§(Davidson 2011, 69)§REF§ in years 221, 219, 213 BCE.§REF§(Stearns 2001, 49)§REF§<br>Other cities (300 BCE):§REF§(Modelski 2003, 42)§REF§" } ] }