Empire1799 – 1867 · 68 years
Russian America / Alaska
Overview
From 1732 to 1867, the Russian Empire laid claim to northern Pacific Coast territories in the Americas. Russian colonial possessions in the Americas were collectively known as Russian America from 1799 to 1867. It consisted mostly of present-day Alaska in the United States, but also included the outpost of Fort Ross in California. Russian Creole settlements were concentrated in Alaska, including the capital, New Archangel, which is now Sitka.
Wikipedia: Russian colonization of North America·CC BY-SA 4.0
Borders & accuracy
Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.
- SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
- DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1815:Russian Empire + Fort Ross augmentation
- SNAPSHOT1815
- MATCHEDRussian Empire + Fort Ross augmentation
- POLITY TYPEstate
Also during this period
No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.
- Taiping Rebellion1850–64World-changing · 30M dead
- American Indian Wars1500–1800World-changing · 5.0M dead
- Napoleonic Wars1803–15World-changing · 3.5M dead
- French Revolutionary Wars1792–1802World-changing · 1.5M dead
- World-changing · 1.0M dead
- American Civil War1861–65World-changing · 750K dead
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1799 and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Russian America / Alaska (1799 – 1867). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/americas-russian-america-alaska · Sources & methodology