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Landmark Europe archaeological

Derinkuyu Underground City

800 BCE – 1923 CE · 2,723 years

Deepest of Cappadocia's underground cities, extending 60 meters below ground with room for 20,000 people and their livestock

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Derinkuyu underground city 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–1000 BCE)
  2. Hittites (700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Achaemenid Empire (500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Empire of Alexander (323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Kingdom of Antigonus (300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. minor states (200 BCE–100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Rome (Diocletianus) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Eastern Roman Empire (400 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Byzantine Empire (800 CE–1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Sultanate of Rum (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Ottoman Empire (1400 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Ottoman Sultanate (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  14. 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

Colosseum

80 CE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Ottoman Empire

1299 CE – 1922 CE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War I

1914 CE – 1918 CE

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

Napoleonic Wars

1803 CE – 1815 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 800 BCE and 1923 CE.

800 BCE Delphi 800 BCE Butrint 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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