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Event religious Middle East

St. Catherine's Monastery

548 CE

World's oldest continuously operating Christian monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in the Egyptian desert.

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Standing in 548 CE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Persia Polity · Middle East 400 CE – 1914 CE Hadramaut Polity · Middle East 323 BCE – 1700 CE Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing Danube Delta Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing

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533 CE Vandalic War 535 CE Gothic War (Italian Reconquest) 537 CE Hagia Sophia 548 CE St. Catherine's Monastery & Mount Sinai 552 CE Göktürk Wars 552 CE Göktürk Khaganate Wars