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Balasagun (Burana)

A Karakhanid capital of the Silk Road, marked now by its leaning Burana tower.

Dated events and their evidence

• 900 CE mainstream
  a Sogdian-founded town, later a Karakhanid capital source
• 1025 CE mainstream
  the Burana minaret raised source
• 1210 CE mainstream
  taken by the Kara-Khitan and later the Mongols source

Where

42.7460° N, 75.2510° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balasagun
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burana_Tower

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