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Tagskalinga
3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Early Historic to Gupta 700 BCE–400 CE · Kalinga (pre-Mauryan) / Maurya
Massive fortified early historic city (7th/3rd c. BCE–4th c. CE) near Bhubaneswar, largest known settlement of its period in eastern India — nearly perfect square 1.2×1.2 km 1.3 km² with 9 m high…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Kalinga (Maha-Meghavahana) early historic · Jain (Digambara) / Royal Kalinga
Earliest Jain monastic caves in eastern India (2nd c. BCE–2nd c. CE) on twin sandstone hills near Bhubaneswar — 33 caves on Udayagiri and Khandagiri — excavated under Kalinga king Kharavela (c.40…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Eastern Ganga 1243–1255 CE · Odia / Kalinga Hindu (Surya)
13th-century (1243–1255 CE) Kalinga-style Sun temple built as colossal 30-m high chariot of Surya with 24 giant stone wheels (9.5 ft sundials) pulled by seven horses, originally 68 m shikhara…
