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The Sasanian Empire at its apex under Khosrow II
Original file by Ro4444, edited by me · CC BY 4.0
Polity Middle East

Sasanian Empire

224 CE – 700 CE · 476 years

Last pre-Islamic Iranian empire (224–651 AD)

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How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: Sasanian Empire's founding and dissolution are recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. The atlas itself draws the world at 3 moments in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 500 CE to 700 CE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

500 CE 3 snapshots 700 CE
500 CE600 CE700 CE

Elsewhere in Middle East 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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Landmark · Middle East

Church of the Nativity

326 CE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Mediterranean Southern Route

331 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Early Sassanid–Roman Wars

224 CE – 260 CE

Landmark · Middle East

Church of the Holy Sepulchre

335 CE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Persia

Attested 400 CE – 1914 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Maritime Silk Road – Red Sea Branch

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Palmyrene Empire

270 CE – 273 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 224 CE and 700 CE.

224 CE Early Sassanid–Roman Wars 270 CE Aksumite–Himyarite Wars 270 CE Palmyrene Empire 326 CE Church of the Nativity 335 CE Church of the Holy Sepulchre 470 CE Yazd Atash Behram

And in the rest of the world

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

Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing Byzantine Empire Polity · Europe 395 CE – 1453 CE Amber Road Trade route · Europe 1000 BCE – 400 CE Three Kingdoms (China) Conflict · East Asia 220 CE – 280 CE Nagarjuna Figure · South India 150 CE – 250 CE Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE
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