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Landmark Europe archaeological World Heritage

Göbekli Tepe

3000 BCE – still standing

World's oldest known megastructure, predating pottery and agriculture

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Göbekli Tepe on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. city-states (3000 BCE–2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  2. Hurrian Kingdoms (1500 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Urartu (1000 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Achaemenid Empire (500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Empire of Alexander (323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Kingdom of Antigonus (300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Seleucid Kingdom (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Parthia (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Sasanian Empire (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Persia (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Eastern Roman Empire (500 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Buwayhid Emirates (1000 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Seljuk Empire (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Khwarazmian Empire (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Ilkhanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. Timurid Empire (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  19. Emirate of the White Sheep Turks (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  20. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  21. Syria (France) (1920 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  22. Turkey (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Europe

Colosseum

80 CE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Ottoman Empire

1299 CE – 1922 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War I

1914 CE – 1918 CE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Landmark · Europe

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

550 BCE – 262 CE

Polity · Europe

Holy Roman Empire

962 CE – 1806 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War II

1939 CE – 1945 CE

Trade route · Europe

Roman Mediterranean Trade

27 BCE – 476 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 2026 CE.

3000 BCE Stonehenge 3000 BCE Troy 3000 BCE Akrotiri 3000 BCE Newgrange 3000 BCE Delos

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing
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