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Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

829 CE – still standing

Destination of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, believed to hold the relics of the Apostle James — one of Christianity's three great pilgrimages

Wikipedia

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Santiago de Compostela Cathedral 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–800 CE)
  2. Asturias (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. León (1000 CE–1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Castile (1279 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Spain (1530 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Approximate
Border precision
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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