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Landmark Europe archaeological

Mérida (Augusta Emerita)

25 BCE – still standing

Best-preserved Roman provincial capital in Iberia, with a theater, amphitheater, aqueducts, and bridge still in use in Spain

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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–100 BCE)
  2. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Rome (Maximian) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Western Roman Empire (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Visigoths (500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Visigothic Kingdom (600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Emirate of Córdoba (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Caliphate of Córdoba (1000 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Almoravid dynasty (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Almohad Caliphate (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Castile (1279 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Spain (1530 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Approximate
Border precision
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Europe

Colosseum

80 CE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Ottoman Empire

1299 CE – 1922 CE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War I

1914 CE – 1918 CE

Landmark · Europe

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

World War II

1939 CE – 1945 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 25 BCE and 2026 CE.

12 BCE Roman–Germanic Wars 9 CE Battle of the Teutoburg Forest 40 CE Pont du Gard 43 CE Roman Conquest of Britain 43 CE London

And in the rest of the world

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

Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Augustus Caesar Figure · Rome 63 BCE – 14 CE Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing
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