Template documentationThe 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>''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}}{{location map~|Continental Asia|lat=34|N|long=50|E|label=|position=|label_size=|mark=Orange dot (semi-transparent).png|marksize=20}}|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 ofAi-Khanoum, with a specially-made map overlay showingXiongnu 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}}