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Landmark South Asia religious

Somnath Temple

300 BCE – still standing

One of the twelve sacred jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva on the western coast of Gujarat, destroyed and rebuilt numerous times throughout history

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Who held this ground

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

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  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–323 BCE)
  2. Mauryan Empire (300 BCE–200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Kushan Empire (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Saka Kingdom (1 BCE–300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Gupta Empire (400 CE–500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Hindu kingdoms (600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Maitraka Kingdom (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Vallabhi (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Gurjara Pratihara (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Rajput Kingdoms (1000 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Solankis (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Rajput Kingdoms (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. minor Hindu kingdoms (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Sultanate of Delhi (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Gujarat (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Islamic states (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Islamic and Hindu states (1530 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. Mughal Empire (1650 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  19. Maratha Confederacy (1783 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  20. British Raj (1880 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  21. India (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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Attested 1000 CE – 1960 CE

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Grand Trunk Road

300 BCE

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Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency

1967 CE – 2026 CE

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Taxila

600 BCE – 500 CE

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Hindu kingdoms

Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CE

Conflict · South Asia

2025 India–Pakistan Conflict

2025 CE

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Ajanta Caves

200 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 300 BCE and 2026 CE.

300 BCE Sanchi Stupa 300 BCE Sanchi Stupas 300 BCE Ai-Khanoum 300 BCE Swayambhunath 262 BCE Kalinga War

And in the rest of the world

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