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Landmark Europe wonder

Ordesa y Monte Perdido

3000 BCE – still standing

Deep limestone canyons and glacial cirques in the Spanish Pyrenees, a UNESCO World Heritage site

Who held this ground

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

Reconstruction

  1. No border recorded here in this snapshot (3000 BCE)
  2. European tribal peoples (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Urnfield cultures (1500 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. No border recorded here in this snapshot (500 BCE)
  5. Celtic Hallstatt culture (400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. No border recorded here in this snapshot (323 BCE–300 BCE)
  7. European tribal peoples (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. No border recorded here in this snapshot (100 BCE)
  9. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Rome (Maximian) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Western Roman Empire (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Visigoths (500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Visigothic Kingdom (600 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Emirate of Córdoba (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Kingdom of France (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Angevin Empire (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. France (1279 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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Image credits 7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons