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Map of the Swedish Diaspora in the World
Allice Hunter · CC BY-SA 4.0
Polity Europe

Swedes

Attested 400 CE – 700 CE

Ethnic group native to Sweden

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Swedes 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 4 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Swedes appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

400 CE 4 snapshots 700 CE
400 CE500 CE600 CE700 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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Landmark · Europe

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

435 BCE – 426 CE

Polity · Europe

France

Founded 481 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Europe

Fall of the Western Roman Empire

376 CE – 476 CE

Landmark · Europe

Roman Forum

500 BCE – 608 CE

Polity · Europe

Western Roman Empire

395 CE – 500 CE

Trade route · Europe

Roman Mediterranean Trade

27 BCE – 476 CE

Conflict · Europe

Byzantine–Arab Wars

629 CE – 1180 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 400 CE and 700 CE.

451 CE Battle of the Catalaunian Plains 482 CE Kyiv 486 CE Frankish Conquest of Gaul 533 CE Vandalic War 535 CE Gothic War (Italian Reconquest) 537 CE Hagia Sophia

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 Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Trans-Saharan Western Route Trade route · Africa 400 CE Goguryeo–Sui Wars Conflict · East Asia 598 CE – 614 CE Muhammad Figure · Arabian Peninsula 570 CE – 632 CE Taxila Landmark · South Asia 600 BCE – 500 CE
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