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Landmark Europe archaeological

Pergamon

300 BCE – 200 CE · 500 years

Hellenistic hilltop city in western Turkey with a dramatic acropolis, the steepest theater of antiquity, and the famous Altar of Zeus

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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–323 BCE)
  2. Kingdom of Antigonus (300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Pergamon (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Roman Republic (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Rome (Diocletianus) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Eastern Roman Empire (400 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Byzantine Empire (800 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Ottoman Empire (1400 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Greece (1920 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  11. Turkey (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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Colosseum

80 CE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Greek city-states

Attested 1500 BCE – 300 BCE

Trade route · Europe

Roman Mediterranean Trade

27 BCE – 476 CE

Conflict · Europe

Cimbrian War

113 BCE – 101 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Colossus of Rhodes

282 BCE – 226 BCE

Polity · Europe

Roman Empire

26 BCE – 395 CE

Trade route · Europe

Roman Western Trade

27 BCE – 476 CE

Conflict · Europe

Roman–Etruscan Wars

509 BCE – 264 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 300 BCE and 200 CE.

300 BCE Antioch 282 BCE Colossus of Rhodes 280 BCE Pyrrhic War 279 BCE Galatian Invasion of Greece and Anatolia 267 BCE Chremonidean War

And in the rest of the world

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

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