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Landmark Europe trade

Ragusa (Dubrovnik)

700 CE – 1808 CE · 1,108 years

Maritime republic rivaling Venice, key Adriatic trade hub connecting the Balkans with Mediterranean commerce

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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–600 CE)
  2. Eastern Roman Empire (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Byzantine Empire (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Chelmia (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Serbia (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Second Bulgarian Empire (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Serbia (1279 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Raška (1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Bosnia (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Ottoman Empire (1492 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Venice (1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. Habsburg Monarchy (1783 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1800 CE)
  14. Austrian Empire (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  15. Bosnia-Herzegovina (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. Austro-Hungarian Empire (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  17. Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  18. Yugoslavia (1930 CE–1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  19. Croatia (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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1299 CE – 1922 CE

Conflict · Europe

Napoleonic Wars

1803 CE – 1815 CE

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Venice–Constantinople Route

800 CE – 1600 CE

Landmark · Europe

Butrint

800 BCE – 1800 CE

Polity · Europe

Holy Roman Empire

962 CE – 1806 CE

Conflict · Europe

Byzantine–Arab Wars

629 CE – 1180 CE

Trade route · Europe

Varangian Trade Route

800 CE – 1100 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 700 CE and 1808 CE.

711 CE Reconquista 711 CE Muslim Conquest of Iberia 717 CE Siege of Constantinople (717) 719 CE Abbey of Saint Gall 732 CE Battle of Tours

And in the rest of the world

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

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