Amaravathi

City · 301 BCE · in South Asia

Capital of Satavahana Dynasty (225 BCE–220).

Kutaisi (301 BCE): Capital of Colchis (301 BCE–231 BCE), Kingdom of Georgia (1010–1122), Kingdom of Imereti (1468–1810).
Paris (301 BCE): Capital of Kingdom of the Franks (508–768), Merovingian Empire (710–717), Carolingian Empire (718–723), and 11 more.
Edessa (302 BCE – 1150 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Osroene (63 BCE–214), County of Edessa (1099–1150).
Seleucia (305 BCE – 165 CE): Capital of Parthian Empire (239 BCE–224).
Ardabil (c. 307 BCE): Capital of Atropatene (307 BCE–165 BCE).
Ganzak (c. 307–165 BCE): Capital of Atropatene (307 BCE–165 BCE).
Chengdu (311 BCE): Capital of Shu Han (224–262), Cheng Han (306–346), Former Shu (911–925), and 1 more.
Thessaloniki (315 BCE): Capital of Kingdom of Thessalonica (1206–1224), Empire of Thessalonica (1236–1246).
Amasya (c. 281 BCE): Capital of Kingdom of Pontus (281 BCE–183 BCE).
Aigio (c. 279 BCE): Capital of Achaean League (279 BCE–146 BCE).

Around the same time and place

Maurya Empire founded (c. 322–185 BCE): Chandragupta Maurya seized Magadha around 322 BCE and founded the Maurya Empire, the first to unite most of the Indian subcontinent; it lasted until about 185 BCE.
Ashoka (c. 304 BCE – 232 BCE): Maurya emperor who, after the bloody Kalinga War, embraced Buddhism and promoted non-violence and dharma through inscribed edicts across his empire.
Chandragupta Maurya (c. 350 BCE – 295 BCE): Founder of the Maurya Empire, who overthrew the Nanda dynasty and gained the north-west from Seleucus I.
Brahmi script (c. 300 BCE): Brahmi, known from Emperor Ashoka's inscriptions, is the ancestor of nearly all the scripts of South and Southeast Asia, from Devanagari and Tamil to Thai and Tibetan.
Kalinga War (c. 262 BCE): Ashoka's conquest of Kalinga on India's east coast; its enormous casualties, recorded in his own edicts, led him to renounce war of conquest.
Ujjain (c. 600 BCE – c. 405 CE): Capital of Janapada of Avanti (600 BCE–405 BCE), Western Satraps (43–405).
Mahajanapadas (c. 600–345 BCE): Sixteen great kingdoms and republics of northern India in the 6th century BCE, among which Magadha eventually became dominant.
Edicts of Ashoka (c. 260–232 BCE): Inscriptions on rocks and pillars across the Indian subcontinent in which Ashoka proclaimed his policy of dharma; they are among the earliest deciphered Indian texts.