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Théophile Lefebvre · Public domain
Polity Middle East

Ifat

Attested 1200 CE

Historic state in Horn of Africa

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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 Ifat appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1200 CE

Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

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2560 BCE – still standing

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Attested 3000 BCE – 2026 CE

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Mediterranean Southern Route

331 BCE – 1500 CE

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The Crusades

1096 CE – 1291 CE

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Petra

300 BCE – still standing

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Persia

Attested 400 CE – 1914 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Maritime Silk Road – Red Sea Branch

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Khwarezmian Empire Expansion

1141 CE – 1218 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1200 CE and 1200 CE.

1200 CE Easter Island (Rapa Nui) 1200 CE Bruges 1200 CE Lübeck 1200 CE Lisbon 1200 CE Tulum 1200 CE Ramanathaswamy Temple

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Wars of the Kievan Rus' Conflict · Europe 860 CE – 1240 CE Zhu Xi Figure · Fujian and Jiangxi, Southern Song dynasty China 1130 CE – 1200 CE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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