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Landmark Middle East archaeological

Palmyra

200 BCE – still standing

Oasis city and vital caravan stop on the ancient Silk Road

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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. Seleucid Kingdom (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Parthia (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Rome (Diocletianus) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Eastern Roman Empire (400 CE–600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1000 CE–1400 CE)
  10. Arabs (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1530 CE–1815 CE)
  12. Arabia (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. Arabia (Nejd) (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  14. Syria (France) (1920 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  15. Syria (1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. United Arab Republic (1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  17. Syria (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

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2026 Iran War

2026 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 200 BCE and 2026 CE.

200 BCE Jerash 167 BCE Maccabean Revolt 150 BCE Qumran 120 BCE Ctesiphon 100 BCE Hegra (Mada'in Salih)

And in the rest of the world

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