Neither; the year 0 does not exist. The calendar goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE.
There are 500 years between 250 CE and 250 BCE Years that are denoted as BCE are counted backwards until they get to 0 after which years are then denoted as CE and these ones count upwards. This means that to find the difference between these two years, you must first count from 250 BCE to 0 and then from 0 to 250 CE. 250 BCE to zero = 250 years Zero to 250 CE = 250 years Then sum them up: = 250 + 250 = 500 years
The first century CE began at the beginning of 1 CE and ended at the end of 100 CE. The first century BCE ended at the end of 1 BCE, and the second century CE began at the beginning of 101 CE. (Note that there is no year 0, so 1 BCE immediately precedes 1 CE.)
1600 BCE - with BCE you count backwards, with CE you count forwards - 0 is the neutral point from which you count rather way.
There is no time between BCE and CE. When the former ends, the latter begins. In fact, since there is no year 0, the difference is -1 years.
Remembering that there was no year zero, there were 399 years between 200 BCE and 200 CE.
There are 500 years between 250 CE and 250 BCE Years that are denoted as BCE are counted backwards until they get to 0 after which years are then denoted as CE and these ones count upwards. This means that to find the difference between these two years, you must first count from 250 BCE to 0 and then from 0 to 250 CE. 250 BCE to zero = 250 years Zero to 250 CE = 250 years Then sum them up: = 250 + 250 = 500 years
Assuming that BCE is a renaming of BC and CE is a renaming of AD of the calendar devised by Dionysius Exiguus in 247 Anno Diocletiani which he designated 531 AD since he calculated that Jesus was born 531 years earlier, becoming his year 1 AD, which was preceded by 1 BC as zero was not invented for another 500 years or so, then between 200 BCE and 2000CE there are the 199 years 199 BCE to 1 BCE and the 1999 years from 1 CE to 1999 CE, making a total of 199 + 1999 = 2198 years between 200 BCE and 2000 CE (exclusive). However, as people were celebrating 2000 CE as the start of the third millennium CE, the second must have run from 1000 CE to 1999 CE and thus the first must have run from 0 CE to 999 CE which means that in the BCE/CE calendar there is a year 0, which means between 200 BCE and 2000 CE there is an extra year, meaning there are 2199 years between 200 BCE and 2000 CE (exclusive). Which dates have been corrected for this extra year in the BCE/CE calendar over the BC/AD calendar I would love to know; for example, Julius Caesar was assassinated on 15 March 44 BC, so is that 15 March 43 BCE?
bce means 'Before Common Era'. It's the dates before we hit 0 and started counting upward. Now, we're in CE, or 'Common Era'.
It was part of the Parthian Empire 248 BCE to 224 CE.
There are 1,200 years between 1200 BCE and 0. The calculation is straightforward: you count the years from 1200 BCE to 1 BCE, which totals 1,199 years, and then add 1 year for 1 CE, bringing the total to 1,200 years.
2012 BCE falls within the 21st century BCE. The centuries are counted backward from the year 1 CE, so the 21st century BCE includes the years 2100 BCE to 2001 BCE. Therefore, 2012 BCE is part of that range.
There is not a year zero. So, when 1 BCE ends, 1 CE begins. The division is at midnight on 31 December, 1 BCE.