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Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0
Landmark Middle East archaeological

Jerash

200 BCE – 749 CE · 949 years

One of the best-preserved Roman provincial cities in the world, with a monumental oval plaza, colonnaded streets, and two theaters in Jordan

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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–300 BCE)
  2. Ptolemaic Kingdom (200 BCE–100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Rome (Diocletianus) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Eastern Roman Empire (400 CE–600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Fatimid Caliphate (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Ayyubid Sultanate (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Mamluk Sultanate (1279 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Mesopotamia (GB) (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. Kingdom of Iraq (1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  14. Mesopotamia (GB) (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  15. Transjordan (1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. Jordan (1960 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

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Nile River Trade

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Syrian Wars (Ptolemaic–Seleucid)

274 BCE – 168 BCE

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Adulis

600 BCE – 700 CE

Polity · Middle East

Persia

Attested 400 CE – 1914 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Egyptian Red Sea Trade

2500 BCE – 30 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Maccabean Revolt

167 BCE – 160 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 200 BCE and 749 CE.

200 BCE Palmyra 167 BCE Maccabean Revolt 150 BCE Qumran 120 BCE Ctesiphon 100 BCE Hegra (Mada'in Salih)

And in the rest of the world

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

Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing Simhala Polity · South Asia 500 BCE – 700 CE Amber Road Trade route · Europe 1000 BCE – 400 CE Cimbrian War Conflict · Europe 113 BCE – 101 BCE Yose ben Yoezer Figure · Judea 200 BCE – 161 BCE Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing
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