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Murat Özsoy 1958 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Landmark Europe archaeological

Çatalhöyük

7500 BCE – 5700 BCE · 1,800 years

One of the world's earliest urban settlements in central Turkey, a Neolithic proto-city of up to 10,000 inhabitants with remarkable wall paintings

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Who held this ground

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

Reconstruction

  1. No border recorded here in this snapshot (3000 BCE)
  2. Anatolian tribes (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Hittites (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. Kingdom of Antigonus (300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Seleucid Kingdom (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Roman Republic (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Rome (Diocletianus) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Eastern Roman Empire (400 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Byzantine Empire (800 CE–1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Sultanate of Rum (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Ottoman Empire (1400 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Italy (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. Turkey (1930 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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Landmark · Europe

Nineveh

6000 BCE – 612 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 7500 BCE and 5700 BCE.

6000 BCE Nineveh 7300 BCE Cueva de las Manos 6600 BCE Budj Bim Cultural Landscape

And in the rest of the world

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

Budj Bim Cultural Landscape Landmark · Oceania 6600 BCE – still standing Chinchorro culture Polity · Americas 7000 BCE – 1499 BCE Cueva de las Manos Landmark · Americas 7300 BCE – still standing Quebrada de Humahuaca Landmark · Americas 9000 BCE – still standing Kuk Early Agricultural Site Landmark · Oceania 8000 BCE – still standing Ischigualasto (Valley of the Moon) Landmark · Americas 9000 BCE – still standing
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