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Landmark Europe archaeological World Heritage

Timgad

100 CE – 700 CE · 600 years

Remarkably preserved Roman colonial town in Algeria, founded by Trajan with a perfect grid layout, triumphal arch, and public library

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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–1 BCE)
  2. Roman Empire (100 CE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Rome (Maximian) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Western Roman Empire (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Vandals (500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. No border recorded here in this snapshot (600 CE)
  7. Aures (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Aghlabid Emirate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Fatimid Caliphate (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Ayyubid Sultanate (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Hafsid Caliphate (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Zayyanid Caliphate (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Algiers (1715 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  15. Algeria (FR) (1880 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. Algeria (1900 CE–1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  17. Algeria (France) (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  18. Algeria (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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Landmark · Europe

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

550 BCE – 262 CE

Polity · Europe

Byzantine Empire

395 CE – 1453 CE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Europe

Fall of the Western Roman Empire

376 CE – 476 CE

Landmark · Europe

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

435 BCE – 426 CE

Polity · Europe

Roman Empire

26 BCE – 395 CE

Trade route · Europe

Roman Mediterranean Trade

27 BCE – 476 CE

Conflict · Europe

Byzantine–Arab Wars

629 CE – 1180 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 100 CE and 700 CE.

101 CE Dacian Wars (Trajan) 122 CE Hadrian's Wall 125 CE Pantheon 166 CE Marcomannic Wars 235 CE Crisis of the Third Century

And in the rest of the world

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

Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Incense Route Trade route · Middle East 1000 BCE – 200 CE Three Kingdoms (China) Conflict · East Asia 220 CE – 280 CE Rabban Gamliel Figure · Yavneh / Rome 50 CE – 118 CE Taxila Landmark · South Asia 600 BCE – 500 CE
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