Section: General Variables

Subsection: General

Polity Capital

The capital of a polity is connection point between an existing Polity instance and an existing Capital instance. Optionally, year range associations can be specified. If not provided, it implies that the capital remains constant throughout the entire duration of the polity's existence.

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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]
Verified	A Seshat Expert has approved this piece of data.

Variable	Definition
capital	The capital of a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Capital	Capital Object	Description	Edit
31	(Kingdom of Waalo)	1711 CE 1780 CE	Ndiangue	None	None
32	(Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty I)	1712 CE 1775 CE	Saint Petersburg	None	None
33	(Spanish Empire II)	1716 CE 1814 CE	Madrid	Madrid	None
34	(Antebellum US)	1787 CE 1790 CE	New York	None	None
35	(Antebellum US)	1790 CE 1800 CE	Philadelphia	None	None
36	(Kingdom of Waalo)	1790 CE 1855 CE	Nder	None	None
37	(Kanem-Borno)	1800 CE 1893 CE	Kukawa	None	None
38	(Antebellum US)	1800 CE 2023 CE	Washington D.C	None	None
39	(Soviet Union)	1918 CE 1991 CE	Moscow	None	None
40	(Hawaii I)	Full Year Range of Hawaii I is assumed. [1000, 1200]	none	None	None

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