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Landmark Europe archaeological World Heritage

Butrint

800 BCE – 1800 CE · 2,600 years

Layered Greco-Roman city in southern Albania inhabited for 2,500 years, with a theater, baptistery, and Venetian fortress

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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. No border recorded here in this snapshot (700 BCE–2026 CE)

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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Landmark · Europe

Colosseum

80 CE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Ottoman Empire

1299 CE – 1922 CE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Europe

Greco-Persian Wars

499 BCE – 449 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

550 BCE – 262 CE

Polity · Europe

Holy Roman Empire

962 CE – 1806 CE

Trade route · Europe

Roman Mediterranean Trade

27 BCE – 476 CE

Conflict · Europe

Conquests of Alexander the Great

334 BCE – 323 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 800 BCE and 1800 CE.

800 BCE Delphi 800 BCE Derinkuyu Underground City 776 BCE Olympia 756 BCE Trebizond 750 BCE Biskupin

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 Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing
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