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Ssriram mt · CC BY-SA 4.0

Landmark South Asia religious

Ramanathaswamy Temple

1200 CE – still standing

Hindu temple on Rameswaram island with the longest corridor of any Hindu temple, a Char Dham site linked to the Ramayana epic

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Ramanathaswamy Temple on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

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

Reconstruction

Before it was built (3000 BCE–1100 CE)
No border recorded here in this snapshot (1200 CE–2026 CE)

Elsewhere in South Asia at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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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

Hampi

1336 CE – 1565 CE

Polity · South Asia

Hindu kingdoms

Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CE

Conflict · South Asia

2025 India–Pakistan Conflict

Landmark · South Asia

Sanchi Stupas

300 BCE – 1200 CE

Polity · South Asia

India

Attested 1783 CE – 2026 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1200 CE and 2026 CE.

1206 CE Delhi Sultanate Wars 1250 CE Konark Sun Temple 1336 CE Vijayanagara Empire Wars 1336 CE Hampi 1336 CE Vijayanagara

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 Zhu Xi Figure · Fujian and Jiangxi, Southern Song dynasty China 1130 CE – 1200 CE Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Landmark · Europe 350 BCE – 1404 CE

Image credits 7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons

Ramanathaswamy Temple Ssriram mt · CC BY-SA 4.0
Taj Mahal Yann; edited by Jim Carter · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tibet University of Texas Libraries · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hampi iMahesh · CC BY-SA 4.0
2025 India–Pakistan conflict Grubb at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sanchi Stupa Biswarup Ganguly · CC BY 3.0
Flag of India Government of India · Public domain