List of theocracies

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This is a list of theocracies or divine states .

map Country / Empire / State religion Period
Kingdom of Israel 1020 map-de.svg (hypothetical) Davidic-Solomonic empire Judaism 1010 BC BC - 926 BC Chr.
Kingdoms of Israel and Judah map 830.svg Northern Reich Israel Judaism 926 BC Chr. - 722 BC Chr.
Kingdoms of Israel and Judah map 830.svg Southern Reich of Judah Judaism 926 BC BC - 587 BC Chr.
First century Iudaea province.gif Judaea Judaism 538 BC BC - 6 AD
Mohammad adil-Rashidun-empire-at-its-peak-close.PNG Caliphate of the four "rightly guided caliphs" Islam 632-661
Umayyad750ADloc.png Umayyad Caliphate Sunni Islam 661-750
Ancestral Puebloan territory.svg Pueblo culture Religion of the Pueblo Culture 700-1540
Califato de Córdoba - 1000 de.svg Emirate of Cordoba
Caliphate of Cordoba 		Sunni Islam 756-1031
PapalStates1700.png Papal States Catholicism 754-1870
Abbasid's Dynasty 750 - 1258 (AD) .PNG Abbasid Caliphate Sunni Islam 750-1258
Fatimid Islamic Caliphate.png Fatimid Caliphate Sunni Islam 909-1171
Map Crusader states 1135-de.svg Crusader States Catholicism 1098-1302
Empire almohade.PNG Almohad Caliphate Sunni Islam 1121-1269
Mamluks1279.png Abbasid Caliphate under the Mamluks Sunni Islam 1261-1517
Inca Expansion.svg Inca Empire Inca religion 1200-1533
Italy 1454 after the Peace of Lodi.jpg Republic of Florence under Girolamo Savonarola Catholicism 1494-1498
Safavid Empire 1501 1722 AD.png Sultanate of the Safavids Shiite Islam 1501-1722
1830 Montenegro.png Principality of Montenegro Orthodox Christianity 1516-1851
MuensterUnderSiege1534.jpg Anabaptist empire of Munster baptist 1530-1535
Tibet-claims.jpg Tibet Lamaism 1543-1959
Mongolia 1996 CIA map.jpg Mongolia Lamaism 1576-1924
Escalade-battle-2.jpg Republic of Geneva under John Calvin Calvinism 1540-1564
Reducciones.PNG Jesuit reductions Catholicism 1609-1767
Natchez lang.png Natchez Religion of the Natchez 17th century
Bhutan relief location map.jpg Bhutan Mahayana - Buddhism 1616-1964
Penncolony.png Pennsylvania
( Holy Experiment ) 		Quakerism 1681-1756
Fula jihad states map general c1830.png Empire of Futa Jalon Sunni Islam 1727-1896
Ottoman empire de.svg Ottoman Empire Sunni Islam 1774-1924
Senegalvalleystatesc1850.png Empire of Fouta Toro Sunni Islam 1776-1860
Sokoto caliphate.png Sokoto Caliphate Sunni Islam 1804-1903
Wpdms deseret utah territory legend.png Utah Mormonism 1846-1858
Second world war asia 1937-1942 map en6.png Japanese Empire Shintoism 1868-1945
The Mahdist State, 1881-98, modern Sudan.png "Caliphate of Omdurman"
(Empire of the Mahdi) 		Sunni Islam 1881-1899
Vatican City map DE.png Vatican city Catholicism since 1929
Iran in its region.svg Islamic Republic of Iran Shiite Islam since 1979
Afghanistan physical map.svg Islamic emirate of Afghanistan Sunni Islam 1997-2001
Territorial control of the ISIS.svg Islamic State in Iraq and Syria Sunni Islam 2014-2019

literature

  • Mario Ferrero: The Economics of Theocracy. in: Ronald Wintrobe, Mario Ferrero (Eds.): The Political Economy of Theocracy . 2009 ( online excerpt )