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Yemen 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 21 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Yemen 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 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.
Landmark · Middle East
Lighthouse of Alexandria
280 BCE – 1323 CE.svg/500px-Flag_of_Iran_(official).svg.png)
Polity · Middle East
Iran
Founded 1920 CE · attested to 2026 CETrade route · Middle East
Mediterranean Southern Route
331 BCE – 1500 CE
Conflict · Middle East
Eritrean–Ethiopian War
1998 CE – 2000 CE
Landmark · Middle East
Darvaza Gas Crater
1971 CE – still standingPolity · Middle East
Persia
Attested 400 CE – 1914 CETrade route · Middle East
Maritime Silk Road – Red Sea Branch
200 BCE – 1500 CEConflict · Middle East
2026 Iran War
2026 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1000 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 credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Flag of YemenNightstallion et al., see File history below for details. · Public domain
- Lighthouse of AlexandriaProf. Hermann Thiersch (1874–1939) · Public domain
- Flag of Iran (official)SVG file: SiBr 4 Designer: Hamid Nadimi Construction: ISIRI · Public domain
- Eritrean–Ethiopian WarSkilla1st · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Darvaza gas craterTormod Sandtorv · CC BY-SA 2.0
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