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Hagia Sophia

537 CE – still standing

Byzantine cathedral turned mosque turned museum in Istanbul

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Hagia Sophia on Wikipedia.

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Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–500 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (600 CE–2026 CE)

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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Landmark · Europe

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

350 BCE – 1404 CE

Polity · Europe

Ottoman Empire

1299 CE – 1922 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War I

1914 CE – 1918 CE

Trade route · Europe

Venice–Constantinople Route

800 CE – 1600 CE

Landmark · Europe

Butrint

800 BCE – 1800 CE

Polity · Europe

Holy Roman Empire

962 CE – 1806 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War II

1939 CE – 1945 CE

Trade route · Europe

Varangian Trade Route

800 CE – 1100 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 537 CE and 2026 CE.

572 CE Byzantine-Sassanid War of 572-591 597 CE Canterbury Cathedral 600 CE Sutton Hoo 614 CE Dubrovnik 629 CE Byzantine–Arab Wars

And in the rest of the world

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