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Landmark Africa archaeological World Heritage

Volubilis

300 BCE – 1200 CE · 1,500 years

Best-preserved Roman ruins in North Africa, with intact mosaics and a triumphal arch in Morocco

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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–323 BCE)
  2. Carthaginian Empire (300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Mauretania (200 BCE–100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Rome (Maximian) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Western Roman Empire (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. No border recorded here in this snapshot (500 CE–600 CE)
  8. Mauri (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Idrisid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Caliphate of Córdoba (1000 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Almoravid dynasty (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Almohad Caliphate (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Marinids (1279 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Morocco (1300 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Wattasid Caliphate (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Wattasid Morocco (1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Morocco (1600 CE–1930 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. Morocco (France) (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  19. Morocco (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Africa at the time

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Landmark · Africa

Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

200 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Empire of Ghana

100 CE – 1200 CE

Trade route · Africa

Trans-Saharan Western Route

400 CE

Conflict · Africa

Kanem–Bornu Wars

700 CE – 1846 CE

Landmark · Africa

Great Zimbabwe

1100 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Morocco

Founded 789 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Africa

Trans-Saharan Eastern Route

400 CE

Conflict · Africa

Ghana–Almoravid Conflict

1054 CE – 1083 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 300 BCE and 1200 CE.

300 BCE Bandiagara Escarpment 250 BCE Djenné-Djenno 250 BCE Jenne-Jeno 200 BCE Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove 300 CE Koumbi Saleh

And in the rest of the world

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

Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Warring States Period Conflict · East Asia 475 BCE – 221 BCE Chandragupta Maurya Figure · India 340 BCE – 297 BCE Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing
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