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The Kingdom of Kucha was an ancient Buddhist state located along the northern Silk Road in the Tarim Basin, in what is now Xinjiang, China. It functioned as a major center of Tocharian culture, trade, and Buddhist translation, hosting notable scholars like the monk Kumārajīva. The kingdom was renown...
The Kingdom of Khotan was an ancient Buddhist Saka oasis state located on the southern branch of the Silk Road in the Tarim Basin, modern-day Xinjiang, China. For over a millennium, it served as a crucial cultural and trading hub, widely famed for its high-quality jade and its early innovations in s...
Al-Mihdar Mosque is a historic mosque located in Tarim, Yemen, a city historically recognized as an Islamic scholarly center in the Hadhramaut valley. It is distinguished by its towering mud-brick minaret, built in 1914, which stands approximately 53 meters tall and is one of the tallest traditional...
Loulan was a Silk Road oasis kingdom near Lop Nur in Xinjiang; after Han intervention in 77 BCE it was renamed Shanshan in Chinese sources.
