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Landmark Europe archaeological

Gamla Uppsala

300 CE – 1100 CE · 800 years

Pre-Christian Norse cult center in Sweden with royal burial mounds and the site of a legendary pagan temple

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  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–200 CE)
  2. Germanic and Slavic tribes (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Swedes (400 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Swedes and Goths (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Sweden (1000 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Kalmar Union (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Sweden (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Kalmar Union (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Sweden (1530 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Sweden–Norway (1815 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  11. Sweden (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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Dated moments inside this span

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