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Colossus of Rhodes: Then and Now

Bronze statue of the sun god Helios, about 33 m tall, completed around 280 BC and toppled by an earthquake in 226 BC. Its exact site is unknown; the medieval city of the Knights of St John now stands by the harbour.

As it was
Colossus of Rhodes, as it was
The Colossus as imagined in a 19th-century wood engraving. gravure sur bois de Sidney Barclay numérisée Google, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The site today
Colossus of Rhodes, the site today
Olbertz 20:06, 20. Dez. 2010 (CET), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayGreece
StatusLost
Date280 BC
Nearest city on the mapİzmir (about 239 km)
Location36.451° N, 28.228° E
Map showing Colossus of Rhodes in 300 BCColossus of Rhodes
Border map for 300 BC. See Europe in 300 BC.

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–324 BCAchaemenid Empire
323 BC–301 BCEmpire of Alexander
300 BC–201 BCKingdom of Antigonus
200 BC–101 BCSeleucid Kingdom
100 BC–99Unclaimed / no data
100–299Roman Empire
300–399Rome (Diocletianus)
400–799Eastern Roman Empire
800–1491Byzantine Empire
1492–1919Ottoman Empire
1920–1929Italy
1930–1937Dodecanese Islands
1938–1944Italy
1945–todayTurkey

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