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The example shown below is for the following, structurally similar, template: Template:Continental Asia in 200 BCE, which is called through the code:
{{Continental Asia in 200 BCE}}
or, with optional parameters:
{{Continental Asia in 200 BCE| Parameter 1 | Parameter 2 | Parameter 3 | Parameter 4 | Parameter 5 }}
but other templates of the same family (
Continental Asia in 200 BCE,
Continental Asia in 400 CE,
Continental Asia in 1000 CE,
South Asia in 600 CE etc...) follow the same format:
Use with the following format in Wikipedia articles (all parameters are optional):
{{Continental Asia in 200 BCE| Parameter 1 | Parameter 2 | Parameter 3 | Parameter 4 | Parameter 5 }}
Parameter 1 defines the position of the map on a page: center/left/right
Parameter 2 defines an alternative caption for the map, for example: Asian polities in 500 BCE
Parameter 3 defines additional objects to place on the map, for example:
- a text with hyperlink: {{Annotation|227|50|[[City of Heaven|<span class="mw-no-invert" style="color:#4F311CFF">''City of Heaven''</span>]]|text-align=center|font-weight=bold|font-style=normal|font-size=6|color=#000000}}
- a rectangle: {{Annotation|175|134|[[File:Long Rectangle (plain).png|40px]]}}
- a date mask: {{Annotation|0|0|[[File:Continental Asia date mask.png|300px]]}}
- an object defined through geographic coordinates {{location map~ |Continental Asia |lat=37.164722|N |long=69.408611|E |label=|position=|label_size=|mark=Basic red dot.png|marksize=4}}
- a text with hyperlink: {{Annotation|227|50|[[City of Heaven|<span class="mw-no-invert" style="color:#4F311CFF">''City of Heaven''</span>]]|text-align=center|font-weight=bold|font-style=normal|font-size=6|color=#000000}}
Parameter 4 defines an alternative background map, which has to have the same size as the original.
Parameter 5 if set to none, will remove the border of the map, for use in infoboxes for example.
Example:
The basic map would simply require the code {{Continental Asia in 200 BCE}}, but the code for the same map with an alignement to the right, with a different caption, with an added rectangle for "
YUEZHI" and a geo-located dot for the city of
Ai-Khanoum, with a specially-made map overlay showing
Xiongnu territory (
this map), and without a border, looks like:
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{{Continental Asia in 200 BCE
| right
|The [[Yuezhi]], with [[Xiongnu]] territory and main polities of Asia in 200 BCE
|{{Annotation|185|70|[[File:Long Rectangle (plain).png|35px]]}} {{location map~ |Continental Asia |lat=37.164722|N |long=69.408611|E |label=|position=|label_size=|mark=Basic red dot.png|marksize=4}}
|Map_of_the_Xiongnu,_circa_150_BCE.png
|none}}
- ^ Schwartzberg, Joseph E. (1978). A Historical atlas of South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 37, 147. ISBN 0226742210.
- ^ Atlas of World History. Oxford University Press. 2002. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-19-521921-0.
- ^ Fauve, Jeroen (2021). The European Handbook of Central Asian Studies. Ibidem Press. p. 403. ISBN 978-3-8382-1518-1.
- ^ Haywood, John (1997). Atlas of world history. New York : Barnes & Noble Books. p. Map 24. ISBN 978-0-7607-0687-9.
- ^ Török, Tibor (July 2023). "Integrating Linguistic, Archaeological and Genetic Perspectives Unfold the Origin of Ugrians". Genes. 14 (7): Figure 1. doi: 10.3390/genes14071345. ISSN 2073-4425. PMC 10379071. PMID 37510249.