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Count of Toulouse 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 one moment in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Comté de Toulouse 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
Plitvice Lakes
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Holy Roman Empire
962 CE – 1806 CEConflict · Europe
Wars of the Kievan Rus'
860 CE – 1240 CETrade route · Europe
Venice–Constantinople Route
800 CE – 1600 CELandmark · Europe
Giant's Causeway
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Sweden
Founded 900 CE · attested to 2026 CEConflict · Europe
Reconquista
711 CE – 1492 CETrade route · Europe
Viking North Atlantic Route
870 CE – 1400 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1200 CE and 1200 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
- Plitvice Lakes National ParkZysko serhii · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Banner of the Holy Roman Emperor with haloes (1430-1806)David Liuzzo, eagle by N3MO · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Giant's Causewaycode poet on flickr. · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Flag of SwedenJon Harald Søby and others. · Public domain
- ReconquistaFrancisco de Paula Van Halen · Public domain