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Landmark South Asia religious World Heritage

Potala Palace

637 CE – still standing

Former residence of the Dalai Lama, towering over Lhasa

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Potala Palace on Wikipedia.

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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–600 CE)
  2. Tufan Empire (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Tibetan Empire (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Tibet (900 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Qing Empire (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Not stated
  6. Manchu Empire (1815 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Tibet (1914 CE–1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. China (1960 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate
  • Not stated

Elsewhere in South Asia at the time

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Landmark · South Asia

Taj Mahal

1632 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Tibet

Attested 1000 CE – 1960 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency

1967 CE – 2026 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Temples of Bagan

849 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Hindu kingdoms

Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CE

Conflict · South Asia

2025 India–Pakistan Conflict

2025 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Bagan

849 CE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Simhala

Attested 500 BCE – 700 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 637 CE and 2026 CE.

637 CE Lhasa 647 CE Jokhang Temple 700 CE Shore Temple 800 CE Kedarnath Temple 849 CE Temples of Bagan

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Charlemagne Figure · Frankish Empire 742 CE – 814 CE Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Landmark · Europe 350 BCE – 1404 CE
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