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Seville

1503 CE – 1717 CE · 214 years

Spain's monopoly port for New World treasure and colonial trade

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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–1500 CE)
  2. Spain (1530 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Approximate
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1200 CE – 1669 CE

Conflict · Europe

Ottoman–Safavid Wars

1514 CE – 1639 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1503 CE and 1717 CE.

1506 CE St. Peter's Basilica 1508 CE War of the League of Cambrai 1514 CE Ottoman–Safavid Wars 1516 CE Ottoman-Mamluk War 1524 CE German Peasants' War

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