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Gepids 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 Gepids 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 standing
Polity · Europe
Byzantine Empire
395 CE – 1453 CE
Trade route · Europe
Amber Road
1000 BCE – 400 CE
Conflict · Europe
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
376 CE – 476 CE
Landmark · Europe
Giant's Causeway
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Eastern Roman Empire
395 CE – 1453 CETrade route · Europe
Roman Mediterranean Trade
27 BCE – 476 CEConflict · Europe
Hunnic Invasions of Europe
370 CE – 454 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 400 CE and 400 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
- GepidsGuriezous · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Plitvice Lakes National ParkZysko serhii · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Eastern Roman Empire 565 CEMnohohrishnyi · CC0
- Amber RoadBearas · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Fall of the Western Roman EmpireRoke ( d ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Giant's Causewaycode poet on flickr. · CC BY-SA 2.0
