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Landmark South Asia archaeological World Heritage

Taxila

600 BCE – 500 CE · 1,100 years

Ancient Gandharan city and Buddhist learning center in Pakistan, spanning from the Achaemenid to the Kushan period

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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–700 BCE)
  2. Gandhāra (500 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Hindu kingdoms (400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Empire of Alexander (323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Seleucid Kingdom (300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Bactria (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Kushan Empire (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Suren Kingdom (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Sasanian Empire (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Suren Kingdom (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Alchon Huns (500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Hindu kingdoms (600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Kingdom of Kashmir (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Samanid Empire (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1000 CE)
  17. Karakhanids (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. Kingdom of Kashmir (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  19. Sultanate of Delhi (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  20. Punjab (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  21. Sultanate of Delhi (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  22. Mughal Empire (1530 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  23. Lahore (1783 CE) Border precision: Defined
  24. Sikhs (1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  25. Maratha Confederacy (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  26. British Raj (1880 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  27. India (1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  28. Pakistan (1960 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate

Elsewhere in South Asia at the time

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Landmark · South Asia

Ajanta Caves

200 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Hindu kingdoms

Attested 500 BCE – 1715 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Hephthalite Wars

420 CE – 560 CE

Trade route · South Asia

Grand Trunk Road

300 BCE

Landmark · South Asia

Lumbini

563 BCE – still standing

Polity · South Asia

Simhala

Attested 500 BCE – 700 CE

Conflict · South Asia

Kushan Empire Conquests

30 CE – 375 CE

Landmark · South Asia

Bodh Gaya (Mahabodhi Temple)

528 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 600 BCE and 500 CE.

563 BCE Lumbini 528 BCE Bodh Gaya (Mahabodhi Temple) 528 BCE Sarnath 500 BCE Anuradhapura 305 BCE Seleucid–Maurya War

And in the rest of the world

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

Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great Conflict · Middle East 559 BCE – 530 BCE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing
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