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Pantheon

125 CE – still standing

Ancient Roman temple with the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome, converted to a Christian church in 609 AD and still in use today

Wikipedia

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Pantheon (TV series) on Wikipedia.

Who held this ground

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

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–100 CE)
  2. Roman Empire (200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Rome (Maximian) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Western Roman Empire (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Ostrogoths (500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Eastern Roman Empire (600 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Papal States (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Carolingian Empire (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Holy Roman Empire (1000 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Papal States (1100 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Italy (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. Kingdom of Italy (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. Italy (1920 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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