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Landmark religious World Heritage

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi

1389 CE – still standing

UNESCO-listed unfinished masterpiece commissioned by Timur in Turkistan, Kazakhstan, honoring the revered 12th-century Turkic Sufi poet

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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–1300 CE)
  2. Timurid Empire (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Kazakh Khanate (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. White Horde (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Kazakh Khanate (1530 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. central Asian khanates (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Turan (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. Russian Empire (1880 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. Russian SFSR (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. USSR (1930 CE–1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  11. Kazakhstan (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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  • Approximate

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Jiaohe Ruins

200 BCE – 1400 CE

Trade route

Silk Road Southern Branch

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Polity

central Asian khanates

Attested 1530 CE – 1900 CE

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Ibn Khaldun

1332 CE – 1406 CE

Conflict

Conquests of Timur (Tamerlane)

1370 CE – 1405 CE

Landmark

Lelu Ruins

1250 CE – 1600 CE

Trade route

Manila Galleon Return Route

1565 CE – 1815 CE

Polity

Srivijaya Empire

650 CE – 1400 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1389 CE and 2026 CE.

1399 CE Bibi-Khanym Mosque 1445 CE Russo–Kazan Wars 1514 CE Kalyan Mosque 1619 CE Batavia (Jakarta) 1619 CE Batavia

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