• Thumbnail for Cities along the Silk Road
    lists cities located along the Silk Road. The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes which connected Europe with China, spanning from the Mediterranean...
    10 KB (660 words) - 18:58, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Silk Road
    The Silk Road (Chinese: 丝绸之路) was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Spanning over 6,400...
    106 KB (12,444 words) - 04:02, 22 April 2024
  • Copán and Monte Albán); the central Asian cities along the Silk Road; the city-states of the Swahili coast; Ragusa; states of the medieval Russian lands...
    41 KB (4,034 words) - 22:27, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Belt and Road Initiative
    Asia along the famed historical trade routes of the Western Regions; "road" is short for the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, which refers to the Indo-Pacific...
    204 KB (19,540 words) - 20:15, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aleppo pepper
    is the third most commonly used spice, after salt and black pepper. In Arabic, the pepper is named after Aleppo, a long-inhabited city along the Silk Road...
    6 KB (534 words) - 00:37, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Turpan water system
    Turpan water system (category Sites along the Silk Road)
    Cities along the Silk Road "Karez Well". www.xj.gov.cn. Archived from the original on 2008-06-27. Retrieved 2007-09-23. Boulnois, Luce (2005). Silk Road:...
    7 KB (742 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
  • Middle Turkic languages (category Languages attested from the 9th century)
    Kashgar, Balasaghun and other cities along the Silk Road and its later descendants such as Khorezmian and Chagatai. The western branch consists of Kipchak...
    5 KB (460 words) - 22:12, 12 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Taklamakan Desert
    Taklamakan Desert (category Sites along the Silk Road)
    Complex of Buddhist cave grottos Cities along the Silk Road List of deserts by area – List of the largest deserts in the world by area Mount Imeon – Ancient...
    27 KB (2,361 words) - 18:57, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Silk Road Fund
    The Silk Road Fund (Chinese: 丝路基金) is a China Government Guidance Fund to foster increased investment in countries along the Belt and Road Initiative (formerly...
    10 KB (1,035 words) - 19:33, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
    of the ancient Silk Road and historical sites along the route. On June 22, 2014, UNESCO designated a 5,000 km stretch of the Silk Road network from Central...
    10 KB (1,173 words) - 17:15, 16 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Loulan Kingdom
    Loulan Kingdom (category Populated places along the Silk Road)
    important oasis city along the Silk Road already known in the 2nd century BCE on the northeastern edge of the Lop Desert. The term Loulan is the Chinese transcription...
    36 KB (4,438 words) - 03:13, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cross Temple, Fangshan
    important cities along the Silk Road leading to China. In 635, the Christian monk Alopen reached Chang'an (modern Xi'an), the Tang capital. According to the scholar...
    38 KB (5,112 words) - 11:29, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Karakorum
    Karakorum (category Sites along the Silk Road)
    travel guide for Karakorum. Silk Road Seattle – Karakorum and Cities along the Silk Road, posted at the web site of the University of Washington, 2004...
    25 KB (2,975 words) - 03:01, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tea Horse Road
    one of the main routes of the ancient Silk Road. Beginning in the Han dynasty, the Tanggu Road (蹚古道) was formed by Shaanxi merchants and the ancient...
    45 KB (2,207 words) - 17:08, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Suyab
    Suyab (category Populated places along the Silk Road)
    this city, along with other acheological sites associated with the Silk Road, was inscribed in 2014 on the UNESCO World Heritage List as the Silk Roads: the...
    10 KB (1,202 words) - 10:56, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Kedah
    Kedah Cities along the Silk Road Vinodh Rajan (2 April 2012). "Ye Dhamma – The Verse of Causation". Vinodh's Virtual Cyber Space. Archived from the original...
    18 KB (2,185 words) - 17:44, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Silk Road transmission of art
    Many artistic influences transited along the Silk Road, especially through the Central Asia, where Hellenistic, Iranian, Indian and Chinese influence...
    12 KB (1,363 words) - 14:49, 12 February 2024
  • Silk Road Numismatics is a special field within Silk Road studies and within numismatics. It is particularly important because it covers a part of the...
    12 KB (1,353 words) - 22:41, 21 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of Khotan
    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...
    85 KB (10,089 words) - 15:12, 7 April 2024
  • Silkroad, formerly the Silk Road Project, Inc., is a not-for-profit organization, initiated by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, promoting collaboration among...
    15 KB (1,583 words) - 13:06, 28 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay
    March 31. From Beijing, the torch was following a route passing through six continents. The torch visited cities along the Silk Road, symbolizing ancient...
    176 KB (17,605 words) - 10:41, 9 May 2024
  • to increase the known sites along the Silk Road in this region. It was during those expeditions that Stein suggested that the Silk Road had several routes...
    10 KB (1,515 words) - 23:18, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of silk
    later reach other places in the world, the art of silk production remained confined to China until the Silk Road opened at 114 BC. Even after trade opened...
    61 KB (7,486 words) - 08:49, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bukhara slave trade
    important trade center along the Ancient Silk Road, were slave trade were a part of the trade between Europe and Asia. In the Middle Ages, Bukhara came...
    38 KB (5,193 words) - 08:27, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Central Silk Board metro station
    Central Silk Board is an upcoming important elevated interchange metro station on the North-South corridor of the Yellow Line and Blue Line of Namma Metro...
    11 KB (293 words) - 08:57, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Balasagun
    Balasagun (category Populated places along the Silk Road)
    city in modern-day Kyrgyzstan, located in the Chüy Valley between Bishkek and the Issyk-Kul lake. Located along the Silk Road, the ruins of the city were...
    4 KB (443 words) - 23:23, 12 October 2023
  • The University Alliance of the Silk Road (UASR) is an academic arm to the People's Republic of China's One Belt, One Road foreign policy initiative. The...
    12 KB (590 words) - 12:36, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gilgit
    Ptolemy's accounts of the region.[page needed] Gilgit was an important city on the Silk Road, along which Buddhism spread from South Asia to the rest of Asia....
    46 KB (4,763 words) - 22:00, 10 May 2024
  • (Korean: 실크로드 온라인) is a fantasy MMORPG set in the 7th century AD, along the Silk Road between China and Europe. The game requires no periodic subscription fee...
    5 KB (442 words) - 07:36, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Persian Jews
    Persian Jews (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)
    the Israelites assumed an important position in the Silk Road trade with China. Cyrus ordered rebuilding the Second Temple in the same place as the first;...
    123 KB (14,531 words) - 06:14, 16 May 2024