
Wikipedia
The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.
Armenia on Wikipedia.
From Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
How these dates were made
Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.
The atlas draws the world at 18 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Armenia appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.
Elsewhere in Europe 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.
Landmark · Europe
Colosseum
80 CE – still standingPolity · Europe
Ottoman Empire
1299 CE – 1922 CETrade route · Europe
Amber Road
1000 BCE – 400 CEConflict · Europe
World War I
1914 CE – 1918 CELandmark · Europe
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
550 BCE – 262 CEPolity · Europe
Holy Roman Empire
962 CE – 1806 CETrade route · Europe
Roman Mediterranean Trade
27 BCE – 476 CEConflict · Europe
World War II
1939 CE – 1945 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 323 BCE and 2026 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits8 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Flag of ArmeniaOriginal: Stepan Malkhasyants Vector: SKopp · Public domain
- ColosseumFeaturedPics · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844–1922)User:Orwellianist · Public domain
- Amber RoadBearas · CC BY-SA 3.0
- World War ICollection DocAnciens/docpix.fr · Public domain
- Temple of ArtemisPhilip Galle · Public domain
- Banner of the Holy Roman Emperor with haloes (1430-1806)David Liuzzo, eagle by N3MO · CC BY-SA 3.0
- World War IIRichard Opitz · CC BY-SA 3.0 de