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Landmark Europe religious

Great Mosque of Kairouan

670 CE – still standing

Oldest mosque in North Africa, founded by Uqba ibn Nafi during the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb

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Great Mosque of Kairouan 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–600 CE)
  2. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Aghlabid Emirate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Fatimid Caliphate (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Ayyubid Sultanate (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Hafsid Caliphate (1279 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Tunis (1715 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. Ottoman Empire (1880 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. Tunisia (1900 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 670 CE and 2026 CE.

681 CE Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars 698 CE Tunis 700 CE Ragusa (Dubrovnik) 711 CE Reconquista 711 CE Muslim Conquest of Iberia

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