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Landmark Europe wonder

Colossus of Rhodes

282 BCE – 226 BCE · 56 years

Giant bronze statue of Helios, toppled by earthquake after 54 years

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Colossus of Rhodes on Wikipedia.

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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–300 BCE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (200 BCE–2026 CE)

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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Landmark · Europe

Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Celts

Founded 1200 BCE · attested to 100 BCE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Europe

Roman–Etruscan Wars

509 BCE – 264 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Carthaginian Empire

801 BCE – 145 BCE

Conflict · Europe

Pyrrhic War

280 BCE – 275 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Danube Delta

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 282 BCE and 226 BCE.

280 BCE Pyrrhic War 279 BCE Galatian Invasion of Greece and Anatolia 267 BCE Chremonidean War 264 BCE Punic Wars 229 BCE Illyrian Wars

And in the rest of the world

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

Lighthouse of Alexandria Landmark · Middle East 280 BCE – 1323 CE Parthian Empire Polity · Middle East 246 BCE – 300 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Qin Wars of Unification Conflict · East Asia 230 BCE – 221 BCE Babylon Landmark · Middle East 2300 BCE – 275 BCE Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE
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