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Landmark Middle East religious

Sultan Sanjar Mausoleum

1157 CE – still standing

Monumental Seljuk tomb in ancient Merv, Turkmenistan, once topped by a turquoise double dome visible a day's ride across the desert

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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–1100 CE)
  2. Ghurid Sultanate (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Ilkhanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Timurid Empire (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Timurid Emirates (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Safavid Empire (1530 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Afghanistan (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. Turan (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. Bokhara Khanate (1880 CE) Border precision: Moderate
  10. central Asian khanates (1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  11. Russian Empire (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. Russian SFSR (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. USSR (1930 CE–1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  14. Turkmenistan (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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  • Moderate
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1998 CE – 2000 CE

Landmark · Middle East

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Polity · Middle East

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Trade route · Middle East

Maritime Silk Road – Red Sea Branch

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · Middle East

2026 Iran War

2026 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1157 CE and 2026 CE.

1181 CE Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela 1181 CE Lalibela Rock Churches 1187 CE Battle of Hattin 1219 CE Mongol Invasion of Khwarezmia 1258 CE Siege of Baghdad (1258)

And in the rest of the world

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

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