Ordered inside 214 complete dossier journeys.
THE JOURNEY ATLAS
TIMELINE ATLAS ↗MAP THE ROUTE / KEEP THE LIMIT
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Trace where a word’s reviewed history passed through—and see every broad, global, or uncertain stage that cannot honestly be reduced to one point.
A ROUTE IS A MODEL.
NOT A GPS TRACE.
Regional pins locate reviewed cultural stages. Approximate pins locate broad reconstructed or contact regions. Global stages stay unpinned. Every route preserves its full editorial sequence; only directly cited, explicitly bounded stages also enter the cross-word Timeline Atlas.
231 coordinate pairs exist; global placements are suppressed.
Broad, global, uncertain, or not honestly reducible to one point.
1324 claim-level citations; every remaining stage is a frontier task.
Source-backed stages now join the cross-word Timeline Atlas.
Historic labels remain readable without being parsed into false years.
001 ROUTES / 4 MATCHING STAGES
FILTER THE ROUTE ARCHIVE
WHERE DID THE WORD GO?
Filters select complete word journeys when any stage matches. The map and route card then preserve the surrounding stages, so a search result never becomes a historically amputated dot.
010 PLOTTED STAGES
THE REVIEWED GEOGRAPHIC LAYER
SHAH ON THE MAP
REGIONAL PLACEMENTAPPROXIMATE / RECONSTRUCTED REGIONGLOBAL OR UNLOCATED — NO SINGLE PIN
This is not a GPS trace. Lines appear only when adjacent stages in one selected route both have defensible points. A global stage is not pinned even when a legacy coordinate names the route’s point of departure. Missing locations break the line.
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ROUTE-BY-ROUTE SEQUENCE TIMELINES
1 MATCHING WORD JOURNEYS
035
REVIEWED WORD JOURNEY
shah
OPEN DOSSIER ↗4STAGES0HONEST PINS4NO SINGLE PIN
- 01Achaemenid period, c. 550–330 BCENO SINGLE PIN
Achaemenid royal-title tradition
Old Persian xšāyaθiya is attested in official Achaemenid royal protocol and continues historically toward Middle and New Persian šāh.
2 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 02Middle and New Persian continuation; exact interval unresolvedNO SINGLE PIN
Persian royal and chess terminology
Old Persian xšāyaθiya continues as Middle and New Persian šāh “king”; the title also becomes part of Persian chess terminology.
2 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 031566 first-known-use horizonNO SINGLE PIN
English shah borrowing
English directly borrows Persian shāh as the title of an Iranian sovereign.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗ - 041566 title onward; modern historical usageNO SINGLE PIN
English-language shah usage
Shah remains the English historical and political title for sovereigns of Iran and related Persian royal contexts.
1 DIRECT CITATIONS ↗
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WHAT THIS MAP CAN AND CANNOT CLAIM
GEOGRAPHIC HONESTY IS PART OF THE DATA.
A defensible cultural or linguistic region can be plotted, but the point summarizes an area rather than an exact address.
A reconstructed homeland or contact zone is placed only as a broad visual orientation and uses a distinct dashed marker.
A distributed network, era, or world language has no honest single coordinate. It remains in the sequence and off the map.
Directly cited stages may carry exact, range, century, circa, open, or before bounds. Unbounded prose stays unparsed.
959 stages have claim-level citations and 578 have defensible numeric bounds. Every uncited or unbounded stage remains visible unfinished work.