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Ivan Ivankovic from Dubrovnik, Croatia · CC BY 2.0
Landmark Europe wonder

Postojna Cave

3000 BCE – still standing

Largest karst cave system open to visitors in Europe, home to the endemic blind cave salamander (olm)

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Postojna Cave on Wikipedia.

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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. Illyrians (1500 BCE–500 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Celtic Hallstatt culture (400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. No border recorded here in this snapshot (323 BCE–300 BCE)
  6. European tribal peoples (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. No border recorded here in this snapshot (100 BCE)
  8. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Rome (Maximian) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Western Roman Empire (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Ostrogoths (500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Slavs (600 CE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Carolingian Empire (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Holy Roman Empire (1000 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Habsburg Monarchy (1715 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. Austrian Empire (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  17. Austria Hungary (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  18. Austro-Hungarian Empire (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  19. Italy (1920 CE–1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  20. Yugoslavia (1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  21. Slovenia (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • 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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Landmark · Europe

Colosseum

80 CE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Ottoman Empire

1299 CE – 1922 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War I

1914 CE – 1918 CE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Landmark · Europe

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

550 BCE – 262 CE

Polity · Europe

Holy Roman Empire

962 CE – 1806 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War II

1939 CE – 1945 CE

Trade route · Europe

Roman Mediterranean Trade

27 BCE – 476 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 2026 CE.

3000 BCE Göbekli Tepe 3000 BCE Stonehenge 3000 BCE Troy 3000 BCE Akrotiri 3000 BCE Newgrange 3000 BCE Delos

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing
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