People & stories

Behind every view there are people: warlords who founded cities, exiled poets, architects who gave their lives to a single church. Here are 162 historical figures linked to our destinations and 1161 local stories. History and folk legend are labelled separately, and every story has a source.

印度

16th century · 1508–1556

Humayun

Second emperor of the Mughal Empire

1 related places

17th century · 1592–1666

Shah Jahan

Fifth Mughal emperor and builder of the Taj Mahal

2 related places

17th century · 1593–1631

Mumtaz Mahal

Wife of Shah Jahan, for whom the Taj Mahal was built

1 related places

尼泊尔

Maurya Empire · c. 304–232 BC

Ashoka

Third ruler of the Maurya dynasty and patron of Buddhism

1 related places

1743–1768

Prithvi Narayan Shah, Nepali: पृथ्वीनारायण शाह

18th-century King of Gorkha (1743–1768) and founding monarch of the unified Kingdom of Nepal (1768–1775), creator of modern Nepal.

1 related places

斯里兰卡

477–495

Kassapa I, also Kashyapa I / Kasyapa

5th-century king of the Anuradhapura Kingdom (reigned c. 477–495), builder of the Sigiriya rock palace.

c. 1123–1186

Parākramabāhu I, Sinhala: මහා පරාක්‍රමබාහු

12th-century king of the Polonnaruwa Kingdom (reigned 1153–1186), the monarch who unified the whole island of Sri Lanka and a builder of irrigation works.