This is the template sandbox page for Template:South Asia in 1400 (diff). |
The example shown below is for the following, structurally similar, template: {{Continental Asia in 200 BCE}}.
{{Continental Asia in 200 BCE}}
{{Continental Asia in 200 BCE|Parameter 1|Parameter 2|Parameter 3|Parameter 4|Parameter 5}}
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):
|1=
: defines the position of the map on a page: |1=center
, |1=left
, |1=right
|2=
defines an alternative caption for the map, for example: |2=Asian polities in 500 BCE
|3=
defines additional objects to place on the map, for example:
{{Annotation|227|50|<span class="mw-no-invert" style="color:#4F311CFF">''City of Heaven''</span>|text-aligns=center|font-weights=bold|font-styles=normal|font-sizes=6|colors=#000000}}
{{Annotation|175|134|[[File:Long Rectangle (plain).png|40px]]}}
{{Annotation|0|0|[[File:Continental Asia date mask.png|300px]]}}
{{location map~|Continental Asia|lat=37.164722|N|long=69.408611|E|label=|position=|label_size=|mark=Basic red dot.png|marksize=4}}
|4=
defines an alternative background map, which has to have the same size as the original.|5=
if set to |5=none
, will remove the border of the map, for use in infoboxes for 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:
{{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
}}