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Santa Barbara.§REF§" }, { "id": 862, "polity": { "id": 586, "name": "gb_england_norman", "long_name": "Norman England", "start_year": 1066, "end_year": 1153 }, "year_from": 1086, "year_to": 1086, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 17850, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 17850, "comment": "The estimation for the boroughs (cities) of England in the time\r\nof Domesday Book, AD 1086, would show the following: London 17850 <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/UZX4VREM\">[Russell 1972, p. 122]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 863, "polity": { "id": 798, "name": "de_east_francia", "long_name": "East Francia", "start_year": 842, "end_year": 919 }, "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": 23000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 40000, "comment": "Ratisbon (Regensburg) rose to the rank of main city of Central Europe. Its population passed\r\nfrom about 23,000 in 800 to 40,000 in 1000. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/A79LZA34\">[Tellier 2019, p. 191]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 864, "polity": { "id": 590, "name": "gt_tikal_early_classic", "long_name": "Early Classic Tikal", "start_year": 250, "end_year": 554 }, "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": 7000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 28000, "comment": "Estimates for the population of Tikal vary widely, and have tended to be revised downwards in recent decades. In his monograph on Tikal's population, David Webster draws on the work of Culbert et al. and revisions by Fry to suggest an upper bound of c. 28,000 people for central Tikal and its sustaining area during the Manik phase (250-600 CE). <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/PH2VIM45\">[Webster 2018, pp. 40-41]</a> However, Michael E. Smith uses a much lower figure for Classic Maya Tikal (precise date unspecified), citing a forthcoming book chapter: \"I use a new population estimate for Tikal as described in Dennehy et al. (n.d.). Based on the density categories of settlement at Maya cities published by Canuto et al. (2018), we estimate a population of 7,000 for an area of 1,127 hectares that comprises the urban core, urban, and periurban zones (rural and vacant areas are not included). This area is\r\nmuch smaller than traditional estimates, of which 12,000 hectares (120 square kilometers) is\r\ntypical (Culbert 1991).\" <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/NV3AGUTZ\">[Smith 2023, p. 251]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 865, "polity": { "id": 177, "name": "tr_ottoman_emp_4", "long_name": "Ottoman Empire IV", "start_year": 1839, "end_year": 1922 }, "year_from": 1885, "year_to": 1885, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 873000, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 873000, "comment": "Istanbul was the largest settlement in the Ottoman Empire, serving as its capital and primary urban center. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/HIMJZAS2\">[Gül_Lamb 2004]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 866, "polity": { "id": 21, "name": "us_hawaii_k", "long_name": "Kingdom of Hawaii - Post-Kamehameha Period", "start_year": 1820, "end_year": 1898 }, "year_from": 1878, "year_to": 1884, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 20236, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 28068, "comment": "City &\r\nCounty of\r\nHonolulu :Population counts from missionary censuses of 1831-1832 and 1835-1836, censuses conducted by the Hawaiian government from 1850 to 1896, and censuses by the U.S. Bureau of the Census beginning in 1900. Data for 1831-1896 are on a de facto or unspecified basis; data for 1900 and later years are resident totals, including armed forces stationed in Hawaii. Based on county boundaries established in 1905 and 1909]. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/6PCY6T9P\">[Schmitt 1977]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 867, "polity": { "id": 21, "name": "us_hawaii_k", "long_name": "Kingdom of Hawaii - Post-Kamehameha Period", "start_year": 1820, "end_year": 1898 }, "year_from": 1890, "year_to": 1896, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Population_of_the_largest_settlement", "population_of_the_largest_settlement_from": 31194, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 40205, "comment": null, "description": "" }, { "id": 868, "polity": { "id": 58, "name": "fm_truk_2", "long_name": "Chuuk - Late Truk", "start_year": 1886, "end_year": 1948 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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. 'The high islands of the Chuuk group have mangrove swamps along their coasts, as well as rainforests in the central mountainous areas. The native people are Micronesians who fish, raise pigs and poultry, and grow taro, breadfruit, yams, and bananas. Copra is the chief cash crop. The islands are popular with scuba divers, who come to explore the lagoon’s shipwrecks, many of which have become foundations for new reef growth. The largest urban area is on Weno; the rest of the population resides mostly in traditional villages scattered around the islands. Chuuk has a commercial dock and an international airport, both located on Weno. Total land area 49.1 square miles (127.2 square km). Pop. (2010) 48,654.' §REF§<a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http://www.britannica.com/place/Chuuk-Islands\">http://www.britannica.com/place/Chuuk-Islands</a>§REF§ Further information on demographic changes and Weno's number of inhabitants is needed." }, { "id": 869, "polity": { "id": 502, "name": "ir_elam_8", "long_name": "Elam - Crisis Period", "start_year": -1100, "end_year": -900 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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. Unknown.", "description": null }, { "id": 870, "polity": { "id": 17, "name": "us_hawaii_1", "long_name": "Hawaii I", "start_year": 1000, "end_year": 1200 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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": "Unknown. Presumably very small.", "description": null }, { "id": 871, "polity": { "id": 471, "name": "cn_hmong_2", "long_name": "Hmong - Early Chinese", "start_year": 1895, "end_year": 1941 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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. 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.' <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/Z9NGT72X\">[Diamond 2009]</a> '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.' <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/Z9NGT72X\">[Diamond 2009]</a> 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.”' <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/B4JK39CH\">[Mickey 1947]</a> '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.' <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/TWKSXKI8\">[Graham 1954]</a> '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.' <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/B4JK39CH\">[Mickey 1947]</a>", "description": null }, { "id": 872, "polity": { "id": 47, "name": "id_kalingga_k", "long_name": "Kalingga Kingdom", "start_year": 500, "end_year": 732 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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. “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.\" <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/8B2FNCCB\">[Bulbeck_Peregrine_Ember 2000, p. 84]</a>", "description": null }, { "id": 873, "polity": { "id": 96, "name": "in_kampili_k", "long_name": "Kampili Kingdom", "start_year": 1280, "end_year": 1327 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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.<br>Hosdurg in the region of 50,000?<br> \"The Muslims stormed the fort in an all out assault forcing Kampilideva to abandon Kummata and seek shelter in his capital Hosdurg. Kampilideva relocated the fifty thousand citizens of Hosdurg to other places in Kampila, only keeping five thousand soldiers for the defence of Hosdurg.\" §REF§<a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"https://jambudveep.wordpress.com/tag/kampili/\">https://jambudveep.wordpress.com/tag/kampili/</a>§REF§ -- we do not know where this information comes from, but this unreferenced reference suggests there might be a basis for an estimate somewhere." }, { "id": 874, "polity": { "id": 281, "name": "af_kidarite_k", "long_name": "Kidarite Kingdom", "start_year": 388, "end_year": 477 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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>Samarkand or Balkh 400 CE<br><br>Gandhara c450 CE<br> Captured Gandhara in India. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/M2SDP5ZM\">[Zeimal_Litvinsky_Iskender-Mochiri 1996, pp. 123-137]</a>", "description": null }, { "id": 875, "polity": { "id": 170, "name": "tr_cappadocia_2", "long_name": "Late Cappadocia", "start_year": -330, "end_year": 16 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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": "Mazaca-Eusebeia? Possibly in the region of 50,000-100,000?", "description": null }, { "id": 876, "polity": { "id": 169, "name": "tr_lysimachus_k", "long_name": "Lysimachus Kingdom", "start_year": -323, "end_year": -281 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 877, "polity": { "id": 195, "name": "ru_sakha_late", "long_name": "Sakha - Late", "start_year": 1632, "end_year": 1900 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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. Sakha settlements were initially comprised of residential homesteads only: 'As horse and cattle breeders, the Yakut had a transhumant pattern of summer and winter settlements. Winter settlements comprised as few as twenty people, involving several closely related families who shared pasture land and lived in nearby yurts (BALAGAN) with surrounding storehouses and corrals. The yurts were oblong huts with slanted earth walls, low ceilings, sod roofs and dirt floors. Most had an adjoining room for cattle. They had substantial hearths, and fur-covered benches lining the walls demarcated sleeping arrangements according to social protocol. Yurts faced east, toward benevolent deities. In summer families moved to larger encampments with their animals. The most ancient summer homes, URASY, were elegant birch-bark conical tents. Some could hold one hundred people. Their ceilings soared at the center point, above a circular hearth. Around the sides were wide benches placed in compartments that served as ranked seating and sleeping areas. Every pole or eave was carved with symbolic designs of animals, fertility, and lineage identities.' §REF§Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam and Skoggard, Ian: eHRAF Cultural Summary for the Yakut§REF§ The Russian invaders established riverside towns and fortresses: 'In 1632 the Russian invaders erected a little fortress called Lesnoi Ostroshek, on the eastern bank of the Lena; ten years later they transferred it seventy kilometers to the south, where it became the center of the territory under the name of the City of Yakutsk. The fortress, now the City, of Olekminsk was erected by a Cossack party under the command of Buza in 1635. In the summer of 1637 Buza built two flat-bottomed ships, called kocha, and descended to the mouth of the Lena River, and traveled in an easterly direction on the Polar Sea. Not far from the mouth of the Omoloi River he was barred by ice and was compelled to abandon his ships. For three weeks his party walked over mountain ridges until they arrived at the upper reaches of the Yana River, where they met Yakut and took many sable skins from them as tribute.' §REF§Jochelson, Waldemar 1933. “Yakut”, 221§REF§ We have assumed that most inhabitants of towns were Russian settlers rather than Sakha and other tribesmen. On the other hand, the Sakha contributed actively to different aspects of the Russian colonial structure, such as the postal system. The decentralized political organization of the Sakha themselves also makes the identification of a reliable and realistic code more difficult." }, { "id": 878, "polity": { "id": 133, "name": "pk_sind_abbasid_fatimid", "long_name": "Sind - Abbasid-Fatimid Period", "start_year": 854, "end_year": 1193 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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": "City of Mansura", "description": null }, { "id": 879, "polity": { "id": 167, "name": "tr_tabal_k", "long_name": "Tabal Kingdoms", "start_year": -900, "end_year": -730 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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>data on Neo-Hittite settlements<br> \"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.\" <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/67DQ6G7C\">[Liverani_Tabatabai 2014, p. 455]</a> \"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...\" <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/QC9ZM6WT\">[Bryce 2012, p. 148]</a>", "description": null }, { "id": 880, "polity": { "id": 508, "name": "ir_ak_koyunlu", "long_name": "Ak Koyunlu", "start_year": 1339, "end_year": 1501 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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>Amed was their capital for almost seventy years. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/R242N7BQ\">[Quiring-Zoche 1986]</a>", "description": null }, { "id": 881, "polity": { "id": 113, "name": "gh_akan", "long_name": "Akan - Pre-Ashanti", "start_year": 1501, "end_year": 1701 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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. See above.", "description": null }, { "id": 882, "polity": { "id": 129, "name": "af_hephthalite_emp", "long_name": "Hephthalite Empire", "start_year": 408, "end_year": 561 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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": "Likely to be Samarkand? < 50,000<br>\"The Suishu tells us that the capital city of the Hephthalites measured about 10 Chinese miles square.\"§REF§(???? 1987, ?) 1987. Annals of the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Issues 22-24. Kyoto University, Research Institute for Humanistic Studies.§REF§<br>Toramana, who made conquests in India \"established his capital city at Salaka, and in a brief time Salaka grew into a metropolis, 'a great centre of trade'.\" §REF§(Bauer 2010, 180) Bauer, S W. 2010. The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade. W. W. Norton & Company.§REF§<br> The Questions of King Milinda on Salaka: \"in parks and gardens and groves and lakes and tanks, a paradise of rivers and mountains and woods. Wise architects have laid it out ... strong towers and ramparts, with superb gates and entrance archways; and with the royal citadel in its midst, white walled and deeply moated. Well laid out are its streets, squares, cross roads, and market places. ... And there is laid up there much store of property and corn and things of value in warehouses - foods and drinks of every sort, syrups and sweetmeats of every kind.\"§REF§(Bauer 2010, 180-181) Bauer, S W. 2010. The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade. W. W. Norton & Company.§REF§<br>\"one of the largest towns was Balkh... had about 100 Buddhist vihāras (monasteries) and some 3000 monks.\" §REF§(Litvinsky 1999, 149) Litvinsky, B A. in Dani, A H ed. 1999. History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The crossroads of civilizations: A.D. 250 to 750. Motilal Banarsidass Publ.§REF§<br>Balkh, Termez, and Budrach were other cities in the territory, but the actual number of inhabitants in unknown. A Chinese observer remarked that the cities were heavily fortified but not densely populated. §REF§Higham, Charles F. W. \"Hephthalite Huns.\" Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian Civilizations. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2004. Ancient and Medieval History Online. Facts On File, Inc. <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external free\" href=\"http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp\">http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp</a>?\nItemID=WE49&iPin=EAAC0281&SingleRecord=True (accessed November 13, 2013).§REF§" }, { "id": 883, "polity": { "id": 469, "name": "uz_janid_dyn", "long_name": "Khanate of Bukhara", "start_year": 1599, "end_year": 1747 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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>Bukhara had between 110,000 and 140,000 inhabitants in 1900 CE. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/TPPPM6BE\">[Gangler_Gaube_Petruccioli 2004, p. 80]</a>", "description": null }, { "id": 884, "polity": { "id": 20, "name": "us_kamehameha_k", "long_name": "Kingdom of Hawaii - Kamehameha Period", "start_year": 1778, "end_year": 1819 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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": "Honolulu grew in size due to its natural harbor favored by Westerners§REF§Kuykendall, Ralph S. 1968[1938]. The Hawaiian Kingdom, Volume 1: 1778-1854, Foundation and Transformation. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Pg. 27.§REF§. In 1810 there were “several hundred houses” there§REF§Kuykendall, Ralph S. 1968[1938]. The Hawaiian Kingdom, Volume 1: 1778-1854, Foundation and Transformation. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Pg. 27.§REF§." }, { "id": 885, "polity": { "id": 278, "name": "mn_rouran_khaganate", "long_name": "Rouran Khaganate", "start_year": 300, "end_year": 555 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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>After 500 CE<br> \"It was at this time that the Juan-juan are reported to have first built a town: they surrounded it with inner and outer walls and called it Mumochen. They also gradually learnt to write, and by now there were many learned people among them.\" <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/5V5AKUAF\">[Kyslasov_Dani_Litvinsky 1996, p. 317]</a>", "description": null }, { "id": 886, "polity": { "id": 136, "name": "pk_samma_dyn", "long_name": "Sind - Samma Dynasty", "start_year": 1335, "end_year": 1521 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "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": "Thatta", "description": null }, { "id": 887, "polity": { "id": 778, "name": "in_east_india_co", "long_name": "British East India Company", "start_year": 1757, "end_year": 1858 }, "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": 413182, "population_of_the_largest_settlement_to": 413182, "comment": "Seshat-approved Description: 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. The numbers listed above appear to be the generally accepted figures according to <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/83IG9AXH\">[Sreemani_Bhattacharya 2020]</a> ", "description": "" } ] }