Silk Road Silk Road (Cities along the Silk Road) From Istanbul, Turkey to Masshad, Iran: ...more on Wikipedia about "Cities along the Silk Road"
The Kingdom of Khotan is an ancient Buddhist kingdom that was located on the branch of the Silk road that ran along the southern edge of the Taklamakan desert in the Tarim basin. (The area lies in present day Xinjiang, China). ...more on Wikipedia about "Kingdom of Khotan"
Lop Nur ("Lake Lop"; alternately Lop Nuur = Lop Nor = Lob-nor = Lo-pu po = Taitema Lake, in the Han Annals: P'u-ch'ang Hai = Lou-lan Hai = Yen-tse) is a group of small, now seasonal salt lakes and marshes between the Taklamakan and Kuruktag deserts in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China, ring about the point . ...more on Wikipedia about "Lop Nur"
The Northern Areas is the northernmost region of Pakistani-administered Kashmir. ' Balawaristan' is the name given to the area by a regional nationalist movement ( Balawaristan National Party) centred in Gilgit and is based on the belief that the area was once known as Balawar. The area west of the Indus, including contemporary Gilgit and Hunza, was known as the Gilgit Agency until October, 1947. India does not recognise the Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir as part of Pakistan and refers to these regions as " Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK)". ...more on Wikipedia about "Northern Areas, Pakistan"
Otrar (also called Farab) was a city located along the silk road near the current town of Karatou in Kazakhstan. This town was famous in Central Asia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Otrar"
The Sampul tapestry is a woolen wall-hanging that was found in Sampul, in the Tarim Basin inside a 3rd-2nd century BCE mass grave. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sampul tapestry"
The Silk Road ( Traditional Chinese: 絲綢之路; Simplified Chinese: 丝绸之路; pinyin: sī chóu zhī lù, Persian راه ابریشم; Râh-e Abrisham, Turkish: İpekyolu, Kyrgyz: Jibek Jolu,) was an interconnected series of routes through Southern Asia traversed by caravan and ocean vessel, and connecting Chang'an (today's Xi'an), China, with Antioch, Asia Minor, as well as other points. Its influence carried over into Korea and Japan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Silk Road"
See also: History of Buddhism, Buddhist art, Greco-Buddhist art ...more on Wikipedia about "Silk Road transmission of art"
The Tocharians were the easternmost speakers of an Indo-European language in antiquity, inhabiting the Tarim basin in what is now Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, northwestern People's Republic of China. Their unique culture spanned from the 1st millennium BCE to the end of the 1st millennium CE. Their language is called Tocharian. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tocharians"
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