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Samarkand

300 BCE – still standing

Jewel of the Silk Road, crossroads of cultures and commerce

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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. Khiva Khanate (1530 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. central Asian khanates (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  19. Turan (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  20. Russian Empire (1880 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  21. Russian SFSR (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  22. USSR (1930 CE–1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  23. Uzbekistan (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Running at the same 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

Mogao Caves

366 CE – still standing

Polity

central Asian khanates

Attested 1530 CE – 1900 CE

Figure · India

Chandragupta Maurya

340 BCE – 297 BCE

Trade route

Silk Road Southern Branch

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Conflict

Mongol Conquests

1206 CE – 1368 CE

Landmark

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi

1389 CE – still standing

Polity

Srivijaya Empire

650 CE – 1400 CE

Figure · Judea

Yose ben Yoezer

200 BCE – 161 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 300 BCE and 2026 CE.

200 BCE Kashgar 200 BCE Dunhuang 200 BCE Jiaohe Ruins 366 CE Mogao Caves 552 CE Göktürk Khaganate Wars

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

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