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Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp

1352 CE – still standing

Largest Gothic cathedral in the Low Countries, housing four masterworks by Peter Paul Rubens

Wikipedia

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Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp) on Wikipedia.

Who held this ground

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Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1300 CE)
  2. Holy Roman Empire (1400 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Habsburg Netherlands (1530 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Spanish Netherlands (1650 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. Austrian Netherlands (1715 CE–1783 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. France (1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Austrian Empire (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. Belgium (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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