Kingdom of Khotan
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kingdom-of-khotan-207-5248617
title:
Kingdom of Khotan
text:
The Kingdom of Khotan was an ancient Buddhist Saka kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin. The ancient capital was originally sited to the west of modern-day Hotan at Yotkan. From the Han dynasty until at least the Tang dynasty it was known in Chinese as Yutian. This largely Buddhist kingdom existed for over a thousand years until it was conquered by the Muslim Kara-Khanid Khanate in 1006, during the Islamizatio
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description:
Iranian Saka Buddhist kingdom (56-1006)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Khotan
date created:
2004-06-13T02:18:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T23:10:36Z
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