Bagan
Founded 200 CE · attested to 1200 CE
UNESCO historical city in Mandalay Region, Myanmar
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Bagan on Wikipedia.
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How these dates were made
Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.
These are real dates: Bagan's founding is recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. No dissolution is recorded, so the closing year below is still the last century the atlas drew — not when it ended. The atlas itself draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 1200 CE to 1200 CE — which sits inside the fuller span above.
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.
Landmark · South Asia
Taxila
600 BCE – 500 CE
Polity · South Asia
Tibet
Attested 1000 CE – 1960 CEConflict · South Asia
Hephthalite Wars
420 CE – 560 CELandmark · South Asia
Ellora Caves
600 CE – still standing
Polity · South Asia
Simhala
Attested 500 BCE – 700 CEConflict · South Asia
Ghaznavid Conquests of India
1001 CE – 1030 CE
Landmark · South Asia
Potala Palace
637 CE – still standingPolity · South Asia
Zhangzhung Kingdom
500 BCE – 625 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 200 CE and 1200 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- BaganCorto Maltese 1999 · CC BY 2.0
- TaxilaSasha Isachenko · CC BY-SA 3.0
- TibetUniversity of Texas Libraries · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Sinhalese peopleDodopoo · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Potala PalaceLhasa Government · CC BY-SA 4.0
