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Cádiz

1100 BCE – still standing

Founded by Phoenicians as Gadir, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Western Europe and Spain's primary Atlantic trade port

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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–1500 BCE)
  2. Celtiberians (1000 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Carthaginian Empire (500 BCE–300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Rome (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Roman Republic (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Rome (Maximian) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Western Roman Empire (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Visigoths (500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. No border recorded here in this snapshot (600 CE)
  11. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Emirate of Córdoba (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Caliphate of Córdoba (1000 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Almoravid dynasty (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Almohad Caliphate (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Granada (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Castile (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. Spain (1530 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Approximate
Border precision
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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1299 CE – 1922 CE

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Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War I

1914 CE – 1918 CE

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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

World War II

1939 CE – 1945 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1100 BCE and 2026 CE.

1000 BCE Ephesus 911 BCE Neo-Assyrian Resurgence 900 BCE Ancient Corinth 814 BCE Carthage 800 BCE Delphi

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 King David Figure · Israel / Judah 1040 BCE – 970 BCE Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing
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