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 Turkish Cypriot-administered area 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 standingPolity · Europe
Sweden
Founded 900 CE · attested to 2026 CEConflict · Europe
Russia–Ukraine War
2022 CE – 2026 CELandmark · Europe
Giant's Causeway
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Denmark
Founded 800 CE · attested to 2026 CEConflict · Europe
The Troubles
1968 CE – 1998 CELandmark · Europe
Danube Delta
3000 BCE – still standingPolity · Europe
Norway
Founded 900 CE · attested to 2026 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1994 CE and 2026 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits8 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Plitvice Lakes National ParkZysko serhii · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flag of SwedenJon Harald Søby and others. · Public domain
- Russo-Ukrainian warMinistry of Defense of Ukraine · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Giant's Causewaycode poet on flickr. · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Flag of DenmarkMadden and others · Public domain
- The TroublesThe original uploader was Jonto at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Danube DeltaEuropean Space Agency · Attribution
- Flag of NorwayOriginal: Fredrik Meltzer Vector: Gutten på Hemsen · Public domain