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Burundi on Wikipedia.
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How these dates were made
Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.
The atlas draws the world at 12 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Burundi 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 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.
Landmark · Africa
Thimlich Ohinga
1400 BCE – 1900 CE
Polity · Africa
Algeria
Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CEConflict · Africa
Sand War (Algeria–Morocco)
1963 CETrade route · Africa
Atlantic Middle Passage
1600 CE – 1850 CELandmark · Africa
St. George's Cathedral
1848 CE – still standing
Polity · Africa
Sudan
Founded 1920 CE · attested to 2026 CEConflict · Africa
Nigerian Civil War (Biafra)
1967 CE – 1970 CE
Landmark · Africa
Christ Church, Zanzibar
1879 CE – still standingDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1815 CE and 2026 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Flag of BurundiOwn work. This vector image was generated programmatically from geometry defined in File:… · Public domain
- Thimlich OhingaWycondi · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Flag of AlgeriaOriginal: National Liberation Front of Algeria Vector: SKopp · Public domain
- Flag of Sudanwww.vexilla-mundi.com Flags of the World: Sudan - Flag Construction details · Public domain
- Christ Church, ZanzibarThis photo was taken by Anton Zelenov. Please credit this with : Photo : Anton Zelenov in… · CC BY-SA 3.0
