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Landmark Europe archaeological

Skara Brae

3180 BCE – 2500 BCE · 680 years

Neolithic settlement in Orkney, Scotland — Europe's most complete prehistoric village, older than Stonehenge

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Who held this ground

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Reconstruction

  1. No border recorded here in this snapshot (3000 BCE–323 BCE)
  2. Celts (300 BCE–100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1 BCE–700 CE)
  4. Picts (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. No border recorded here in this snapshot (900 CE–1000 CE)
  6. Norway (1100 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Kalmar Union (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Scotland (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Kalmar Union (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Scotland (1530 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. United Kingdom (1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. Kingdom of Great Britain (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1815 CE–1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  14. United Kingdom (1938 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

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city-states

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

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Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

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Hurrian Kingdoms

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

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Danube Delta

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

European tribal peoples

Attested 3000 BCE – 1930 CE

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Białowieża Forest

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Germanic and Slavic tribes

Attested 3000 BCE – 1200 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3180 BCE and 2500 BCE.

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

And in the rest of the world

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Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Unification of Egypt Conflict · Middle East 3100 BCE – 2950 BCE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing Dravidians Polity · South Asia 3000 BCE – 700 BCE
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