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Flag of England
Original: traditional Vector: Nicholas Shanks · Public domain
Polity Europe

England

Founded 886 CE · attested to 1500 CE

Country within the United Kingdom

Wikipedia

The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.

England on Wikipedia.

How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: England's founding is recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. Wikidata records more than one founding date; the earliest is shown. No dissolution is recorded, so the closing year below is still the last century the atlas drew — not when it ended. The atlas itself draws the world at 4 moments in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 1000 CE to 1500 CE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

1000 CE 4 snapshots · 392 years unattested at the widest 1500 CE

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.

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Image credits7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons