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Geghard Monastery

1215 CE – still standing

Medieval Armenian monastery partially carved out of a mountain cliff, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Wikipedia

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Geghard on Wikipedia.

Who held this ground

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Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1200 CE)
  2. Ilkhanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Timurid Empire (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Emirate of the White Sheep Turks (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Safavid Empire (1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. central Asian khanates (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. Persia (1815 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. Russian Empire (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. Azerbaijan (1920 CE–1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  11. USSR (1938 CE–1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. Armenia (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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