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Landmark Europe archaeological

Biskupin

750 BCE – 400 BCE · 350 years

Remarkably preserved Iron Age fortified settlement built on a lake island in Poland, sometimes called the 'Polish Pompeii'

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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–1000 BCE)
  2. Lusatian culture (700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Pomeranian culture (500 BCE–1 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Wielbark culture (100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. No border recorded here in this snapshot (200 CE–600 CE)
  6. Polanes (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Slavonic tribes (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Slavic tribes (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Poland (1000 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Poland-Lithuania (1400 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1650 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. Poland (1783 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. Prussia (1800 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  14. Germany (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  15. German Empire (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. Poland (1920 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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  • Approximate

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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 750 BCE and 400 BCE.

745 BCE Sargonid Assyrian Conquests 743 BCE Messenian Wars 720 BCE Cimmerian & Scythian Invasions 710 BCE Lelantine War 626 BCE Fall of the Assyrian Empire

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