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Landmark Europe wonder

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

350 BCE – 1404 CE · 1,754 years

Elaborate tomb of Mausolus, destroyed by earthquakes

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Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 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–400 BCE)
  2. Empire of Alexander (323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Kingdom of Antigonus (300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Seleucid Kingdom (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. No border recorded here in this snapshot (100 BCE)
  6. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Rome (Diocletianus) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Eastern Roman Empire (400 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Byzantine Empire (800 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Ottoman Empire (1400 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Italy (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. Turkey (1930 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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Colosseum

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Ottoman Empire

1299 CE – 1922 CE

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Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Europe

Conquests of Alexander the Great

334 BCE – 323 BCE

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Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

550 BCE – 262 CE

Polity · Europe

Holy Roman Empire

962 CE – 1806 CE

Trade route · Europe

Roman Mediterranean Trade

27 BCE – 476 CE

Conflict · Europe

Cimbrian War

113 BCE – 101 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 350 BCE and 1404 CE.

343 BCE Samnite Wars 340 BCE Latin War 334 BCE Conquests of Alexander the Great 333 BCE Battle of Issus 331 BCE Battle of Gaugamela

And in the rest of the world

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

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