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Jiaohe

Silk Road city west of Turpan, built on an islet between two rivers with cliffs thirty metres high for walls. Its streets, houses and temples were not raised from the ground but cut down into it, carved out of the loess, which is why so much of it still stands.

Dated events and their evidence

• 108 BCE mainstream
  capital of the Tocharian kingdom of Jushi source
• 450 CE mainstream
  passes to Chinese dynastic administration source
• 1250 CE disputed
  destroyed during the Mongol invasions and abandoned (13th c.) source
• 2014 CE mainstream
  inscribed with the Silk Roads Chang'an-Tianshan corridor source

Where

42.9506° N, 89.0639° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaohe_ruins

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