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Landmark Europe archaeological

Nineveh

6000 BCE – 612 BCE · 5,388 years

Capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire at its zenith, home to the Library of Ashurbanipal containing the Epic of Gilgamesh

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Hurrian Kingdoms (3000 BCE–2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  2. Assyria (1500 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Achaemenid Empire (500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Empire of Alexander (323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Seleucid Kingdom (300 BCE–200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Parthia (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Parthian Empire (1 BCE–100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Roman Empire (200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Sasanian Empire (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Persia (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Sasanian Empire (500 CE–600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Buwayhid Emirates (1000 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Seljuk Empire (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Khwarazmian Empire (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Ilkhanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. Timurid Empire (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  19. Emirate of the White Sheep Turks (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  20. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  21. Mesopotamia (GB) (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  22. Kingdom of Iraq (1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  23. Mesopotamia (GB) (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  24. Iraq (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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Landmark · Europe

Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Greek city-states

Attested 1500 BCE – 300 BCE

Conflict · Europe

Sargonid Assyrian Conquests

745 BCE – 631 BCE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Landmark · Europe

Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Celts

Founded 1200 BCE · attested to 100 BCE

Conflict · Europe

Cimmerian & Scythian Invasions

720 BCE – 650 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Danube Delta

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 6000 BCE and 612 BCE.

3600 BCE Tarxien Temples 3600 BCE Hagar Qim 3300 BCE Carnac Stones 3180 BCE Skara Brae 3000 BCE Göbekli Tepe

And in the rest of the world

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

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Unification of Egypt Conflict · Middle East 3100 BCE – 2950 BCE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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