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Hotan

Trade route stop, China.

About Hotan

Oasis town in the Tarim Basin, southwestern Xinjiang, an autonomous region in Western China.1

Where next

Places

ExamplesTimbuktuAnother trade-route town, in China: Hotan.2

Trade routes

Shipped throughKhotan jade to the Zhou heartlandHotan was an end of the khotan jade to the zhou heartland route.3

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q235389 (Hotan)
  2. Wikidata item Q9427 (Timbuktu)
  3. Hoisaeter T.L., Polities and nomads: the emergence of the Silk Road exchange in the Tarim Basin region during late prehistory (2000-400 BCE), BSOAS 80(2): 339-363 Bulletin of SOAS (Cambridge University Press)

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