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Video shows distribution map from 10,000 BCE. Range Distribution is even larger before that.
Asiatic Lion along with European Lion, Central, West African and Barbary (Moroccan & Egyptian) is classified as Northern Lion subspecies (Panthera leo leo) divided from Southern Lion subspecies (P. l. melanochaita) about 1,00,000 years ago.
It's distribution is ranged throughout North Hemisphere of Africa and in Eurasia from Portugal, Spain to India's West India, Central India, South India including East India's West Bengal. Indian Lion entered Indian subcontinent after plesitocene lion extinction in the subconinet where it was contemporary with Wanhsien Tiger or acutidens (sinhaleyus spp descendant of antique notodomeri lion of east Africa).
Slightly after, Bengal Tiger entered Subcontinent due to advancement of forest and jungle ecosystems from southeast Asia into the newly hard-collided Indian subcontinent tectonic plate about 25 mya. After which Lion and Tiger coexisted upto 19th Century.
Distribution is according to 2015 lion census in Asiatic Lion Conservation Landscape. Now it's way more than that.