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Kyiv Pechersk Lavra

1051 CE – still standing

Caves Monastery of Kyiv, the most important Orthodox Christian monastery in Ukraine and a foundational site of Eastern Slavic Christianity

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  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1000 CE)
  2. Kievan Rus (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Principality of Kyiv (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Ryazan (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Poland-Lithuania (1400 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1650 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Tsardom of Muscovy (1700 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. Russian Empire (1783 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. Ukraine (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. USSR (1930 CE–1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  11. Ukraine (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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