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Landmark Africa religious World Heritage

Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

200 BCE – still standing

Dense sacred forest along the Osun River, last remaining Yoruba sacred grove in Nigeria

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Osun-Osogbo 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–300 BCE)
  2. West African cereal farmers (200 BCE–800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Mandes (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. West African cereal farmers (1000 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1530 CE–1600 CE)
  6. Oyo (1650 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1815 CE)
  8. Ibadan (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. Nigeria (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Africa at the time

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Landmark · Africa

Volubilis

300 BCE – 1200 CE

Polity · Africa

Algeria

Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Africa

Trans-Saharan Western Route

400 CE

Conflict · Africa

Sand War (Algeria–Morocco)

1963 CE

Landmark · Africa

Great Zimbabwe

1100 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Angola

Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CE

Trade route · Africa

Trans-Saharan Eastern Route

400 CE

Conflict · Africa

Nigerian Civil War (Biafra)

1967 CE – 1970 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 200 BCE and 2026 CE.

300 CE Koumbi Saleh 500 CE Ile-Ife 500 CE Ife 750 CE Ghana Empire Wars 757 CE Sijilmasa

And in the rest of the world

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

Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Yose ben Yoezer Figure · Judea 200 BCE – 161 BCE Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing
Image credits 5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Osun-Osogbo ABORISADEADETONA · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Volubilis Subhros · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Flag of Algeria Original: National Liberation Front of Algeria Vector: SKopp · Public domain
  • Great Zimbabwe Andrew Moore from Johannesburg, South Africa · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Flag of Angola Original: Henrique de Carvalho Santos Vector: SKopp · Public domain