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281:, the city's water source that flowed just outside the fortress, the Ming dynasty denied Khara-Khoto water for its gardens and wells. As time passed and Khara Bator realised his fate, he murdered his family and then himself. After his suicide, Khara Bator's soldiers waited within the fortress until Ming troops finally attacked and killed the remaining inhabitants. Another version of the legend holds that Khara Bator made a breach in the northwestern corner of the city wall and escaped through it. The remains of the city have a breach through which a rider can pass. 258: 298: 247:; it belongs to the Province of Tangut. The people are Idolaters, and possess plenty of camels and cattle, and the country produces a number of good falcons, both Sakers and Lanners. The inhabitants live by their cultivation and their cattle, for they have no trade. At this city you must needs lay in victuals for forty days, because when you quit Etzina, you enter on a desert which extends forty days' journey to the north, and on which you meet with no habitation nor baiting-place. 329: 20: 423: 490:
According to Hermitage curator Kira Samosyuk, "Most of the paintings in the collection date from the eleventh through thirteenth centuries, while the majority of the fragments of porcelain with cobalt decorative glazing are from the fourteenth century. No painting is of a later date than 1378–1387;
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and his army reached Edzina. The town's defender Buyan'temur surrendered, and Chinese troops reached the mountains of Bojiashan. The ruler of Yuan, Gyardzhipan', fled. His minister... and 27 others were captured, together with ten or more thousand head of horses and cattle." After the defeat, and
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One of the puzzles of Khara-Khoto is that there was one building just outside the castle walls. Judging by its shape, it seems to be a mosque. It seems there were Muslims among the people that were ruled by the Tangut. Due to the polytheistic belief of the local people, the Muslims built their
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Further Chinese excavations between 1983 and 1984 by Li Yiyou, Inner Mongolian Institute of Archaeology, have produced some 3,000 more manuscripts. In addition to books, these excavations unearthed building materials, daily items, production instruments and religious art.
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excavated Khara-Khoto during his third Central Asian expedition from July 1913 to February 1916, surveying Khara-Khoto for eight days at the end of May 1914. The findings from this research was incorporated in chapter 13 of Stein's first volume of
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trade in the 11th century. There are remains of 30 ft (9.1 m)-high ramparts and 12 ft (3.7 m)-thick outer walls. The outer walls ran for some 421 m (1,381 ft) east-west by 374 m (1,227 ft) north-south.
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first traveled to Khara-Khoto in 1927, returning in 1929 and staying for a year and a half in the area. He made maps of Khara-Khoto and the Ejin River area, surveyed watchtowers and fortresses, finding a large number of
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during his third Central Asian expedition in 1914; and about 3000 manuscripts were found by an Inner-Mongolian archaeological research team between 1983 and 1984. The languages used in these documents include
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expedition map of Khara-Khoto. The mosque is in the extreme bottom-left corner of the map just outside the city walls, indicated by a rectangular shape labeled with the words "Раз. мечети".
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was created in the end of the 13th century. A large number of East Syriac Christian manuscripts were discovered in Khara-Khoto, among which, several were uncovered by
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mosques outside. Traders from India and the further west would have prayed in the mosque and found relief after their arduous journey along the
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also possibly due to a water shortage, the city was abandoned and left in ruins. Its exceedingly remote location preserved it from looters.
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no Chinese text – later than 1371; no Tangut text – later than 1212. So it seems that the life of the town ceased sometime around 1380."
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The defeat of the Mongols at Khara-Khoto is described in the Ming dynasty annals: "In the fifth year of Hungu (1372), General
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heard rumours that somewhere downstream the Ejin River an ancient city was waiting. This knowledge gave impetus to the
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in 1226, but—contrary to a widely circulated misunderstanding—the city continued to flourish under Mongol rule. During
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population, in 1372 a Mongol military general named Khara Bator was surrounded with his troops by the armies of the
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you ride for twelve days, and then reach a city called Etzina, which is towards the north on the verge of the
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lord Dashi Beile, obtained permission to dig at the site. Over 2,000 books, scrolls and manuscripts in the
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were found in June, while excavating a stupa outside city walls some 400 m (1,300 ft) westward.
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in the spring of 1907. Badmazhapov sent photographs and a handwritten description of Khara-Khoto to the
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and some of them were even lost until their rediscovery in 1991, forming the basis for research of the
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in subsequent years. The books and manuscripts sent back to St. Petersburg by Kozlov were studied by
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includes paintings on silk, mainly of Buddhist subjects in Chinese and Tibetan styles. In addition,
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Muto, Shinichi (2016). "The Exorcism in the Newly Found Khara-Khoto Syriac Document". In Li, Tang;
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Studies on Nestorian Iconology in China and part of Central Asia during the 13th and 14th Centuries
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Innermost Asia: Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia, Kan-su and Eastern Iran
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objects to St. Petersburg, returning again in May 1909 for more objects. The books and
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Buddhist Painting from Khara-Khoto, XII-XIVth Centuries: Between China and Tibet
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Watt, J. C .Y. (1979). "Notes on the Use of Cobalt in Later Chinese Ceramics".
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Lost Empire of the Silk Road: Buddhist Art from Khara Khoto (X–XIIIth century)
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Winds of Jingjiao: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia
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Zhou, Yixing (2020). "Christian manuscript fragments from Khara-Khoto".
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Archives, Ancestors, Practices: Archaeology in the Lights of Its History
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on archaeological excavations of the site between 1927–31. After Hedin,
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Kozlov's findings, some 3,500 paintings and other objects, are in the
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However, Khara-Khoto was earlier discovered by a Buryat person called
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Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo, translated by Henry Yule, 1920
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In addition to written artifacts, the Khara-Khoto collection in the
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were uncovered. Kozlov initially sent ten chests of manuscripts and
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Byzantium to China: Religion, History and Culture on the Silk Roads
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at Khara-Khoto. The city was located on the crossroads connecting
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The city was founded in 1032 and became a thriving centre of
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Kira Fyodorovna Samosyuk, "The Discovery of Khara-khoto" in
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expedition of 1907–1909; several were brought to light by
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Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture
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Handbook to the Collections of Sir Aurel Stein in the UK
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concentrated its preparation for the reconquest of the
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ed. Mikhail Piotrovsky, Milano: Electra, 1999, p.45
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Index


Chinese
Mongolian
Chinese
Ejin Banner
Alxa League
Inner Mongolia
Juyan Lake Basin
Tangut
Western Xia dynasty
The Travels of Marco Polo
Ejin Banner
Chinese
Tangut
Middle Mongol language
Chinese
Western Xia
Genghis Khan
Kublai Khan
Northern Yuan dynasty
Toghon Temür
Central Plain
Karakorum
Shangdu
Kumul
Marco Polo
Campichu
Sandy Desert

Aurel Stein

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