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Czechs 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 2 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Czechs 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
Timgad
100 CE – 700 CEPolity · Europe
Denmark
Founded 800 CE · attested to 2026 CEConflict · Europe
Viking Invasions
793 CE – 1066 CETrade route · Europe
Venice–Constantinople Route
800 CE – 1600 CELandmark · Europe
Abbey of Saint Gall
719 CE – still standingPolity · Europe
Saami
Attested 1500 BCE – 700 CEConflict · Europe
Reconquista
711 CE – 1492 CETrade route · Europe
Varangian Trade Route
800 CE – 1100 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 700 CE and 800 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Map of the Czech Diaspora in the WorldAllice Hunter · CC BY-SA 4.0
- TimgadDan Sloan · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Flag of DenmarkMadden and others · Public domain
- Viking expansionAbbey of Saint-Aubin · Public domain
- Abbey of Saint GallA.Savin · FAL
- ReconquistaFrancisco de Paula Van Halen · Public domain