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Landmark Middle East religious

Great Mosque of Sana'a

630 CE – still standing

One of the oldest mosques in Islam, believed to have been built during the Prophet Muhammad's lifetime and housing ancient Quran manuscripts

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Great Mosque of Sanaa 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. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Yemen (1000 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1530 CE–1815 CE)
  6. Ottoman Empire (1880 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Hejaz (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. Saudi Arabia (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. Yemen (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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  • Approximate

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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 630 CE and 2026 CE.

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