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Polity Africa

Abyssinia

Attested 1914 CE

Region usually restricted to the northern highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Abyssinia appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1914 CE

Elsewhere in Africa at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Africa

Taï National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Algeria

Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Somaliland Campaign (Dervish War)

1899 CE – 1920 CE

Landmark · Africa

Rwenzori Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Angola

Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Italo-Senussi War

1911 CE – 1932 CE

Landmark · Africa

Serengeti National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Morocco

Founded 789 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1914 CE and 1914 CE.

1914 CE East African Campaign (WWI) 1914 CE Cathedral Notre-Dame du Congo 1914 CE World War I 1914 CE Al-Muhdhar Mosque 1914 CE Battle of Tannenberg 1914 CE Battle of the Marne

And in the rest of the world

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

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Tea Horse Road Trade route · East Asia 700 CE – 1950 CE Thomas Edison Figure · United States 1847 CE – 1931 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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