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Landmark South Asia archaeological

Ai-Khanoum

300 BCE – 145 BCE · 155 years

Hellenistic city in northern Afghanistan — the easternmost Greek city known, with a gymnasium, theater, and temple of Zeus

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–323 BCE)
  2. Seleucid Kingdom (300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Bactria (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Kushan Empire (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1 BCE)
  6. Kushan Empire (100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. No border recorded here in this snapshot (200 CE–600 CE)
  8. Western Gokturk Khaganate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Samanid Empire (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1000 CE)
  12. Karakhanids (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Kara Khitai Khaganate (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Chagatai Khanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Timurid Empire (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Chagatai Khanate (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Mughal Empire (1530 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. central Asian khanates (1650 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  19. Afghanistan (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  20. Turan (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  21. Russian Empire (1880 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  22. Russian SFSR (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  23. USSR (1930 CE–1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  24. Tajikistan (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate

Elsewhere in South Asia at the time

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Ajanta Caves

200 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Saka Kingdom

199 BCE – 400 CE

Trade route · South Asia

Grand Trunk Road

300 BCE

Conflict · South Asia

Kalinga War

262 BCE – 261 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Mount Everest

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Hindu kingdoms and republics

Attested 323 BCE – 300 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Western Ghats

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Arakan

Attested 200 BCE – 1815 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 300 BCE and 145 BCE.

300 BCE Sanchi Stupa 300 BCE Sanchi Stupas 300 BCE Somnath Temple 300 BCE Swayambhunath 262 BCE Kalinga War

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