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Landmark Middle East archaeological World Heritage

Babylon

2300 BCE – 275 BCE · 2,025 years

Capital of the Babylonian Empire, site of the Ishtar Gate, the Tower of Babel, and one of antiquity's greatest cities under Nebuchadnezzar II

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE)
  2. Ur (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Babylonia (1500 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Achaemenid Empire (500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Empire of Alexander (323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Seleucid Kingdom (300 BCE–200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Parthia (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Parthian Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Sasanian Empire (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Persia (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Sasanian Empire (500 CE–600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Buwayhid Emirates (1000 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Seljuk Empire (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Khwarazmian Empire (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Ilkhanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. Timurid Empire (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  19. Emirate of the White Sheep Turks (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  20. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  21. Mesopotamia (GB) (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  22. Kingdom of Iraq (1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  23. Mesopotamia (GB) (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  24. Iraq (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

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3000 BCE – 500 BCE

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Conquests of Cyrus the Great

559 BCE – 530 BCE

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE

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Hadramaut

Attested 323 BCE – 1700 CE

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Incense Route

1000 BCE – 200 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Campaigns of Thutmose III

1457 BCE – 1425 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2300 BCE and 275 BCE.

2154 BCE Gutian Invasion of Akkad 2100 BCE Ziggurat of Ur 2055 BCE Egyptian Reunification (Middle Kingdom) 2030 BCE Fall of the Third Dynasty of Ur 2000 BCE Temple of Karnak

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Hindu kingdoms Polity · South Asia 500 BCE – 1715 CE Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia) Trade route · South Asia 2600 BCE – 1900 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Greco-Persian Wars Conflict · Europe 499 BCE – 449 BCE Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE
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