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Antioch

300 BCE – 1268 CE · 1,568 years

Great city at the crossroads of East-West trade in ancient Syria

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Who held this ground

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  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–323 BCE)
  2. Kingdom of Antigonus (300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Seleucid Kingdom (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Parthia (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Rome (Diocletianus) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Eastern Roman Empire (400 CE–600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Byzantine Empire (1000 CE–1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Ilkhanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Timurid Empire (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Mamluk Sultanate (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Syria (France) (1920 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. Turkey (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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Conflict · Europe

Fall of the Western Roman Empire

376 CE – 476 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 300 BCE and 1268 CE.

300 BCE Pergamon 282 BCE Colossus of Rhodes 280 BCE Pyrrhic War 279 BCE Galatian Invasion of Greece and Anatolia 267 BCE Chremonidean War

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