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Silk Road
The Silk Road, or Silk Route, is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian…
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Great Kyz Kala, Merv - one of the most important cities along the Silk Road Merv now lies in modern day Turkmenistan
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the silk road border from Naryn into Kashgar China
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The great silk road: Spices.
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Caravansaray in Sultanhani, central Turkey. A magnificent structure recalling the travelers of the Silk Road as they plied their trade.
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Great Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, China; built with the permission of the emperor by Xuan Zhang during the Tang dynasty, at which point Xi'an was the capital of the empire, on his return from India along the Silk Road
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Stupa at the Jiaohe ruins, China, was an important site along the Silk Road trade route leading west.
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Ayaz Kala is a desert fortress on the Khorezm section of the Great Silk Road. Grape presses and twelve golden statues were found in the ruins of the ruler's palace, dating from the third century BC. The two surviving forts date from 400 to 700 AD.
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part of silk road in Iraj, Iran
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Many of these ancient inns were adjacent to the Silk Road to serve travellers on their way to China and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Caravanserai were established all along the ancient trade routes providing rest, food and water for tradesmen and their animals
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Dawn breaks over the Tash Rabat Caravanserai, an ancient Silk Road stopover, high in the Tian Shan, back in Kyrgyzstan
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The Karakoram Highway is the highest paved international road in the world. It connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass. It connects China's Xinjiang region with Pakistan's Gilgit–Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regions. The highway, connecting the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistani Kashmir to the ancient Silk Road from Kashgar, a city in the Xinjiang region of China, to Abbottabad, of Pakistan.
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The Silk Road , Crescent Moon Lake, Dunhuang, Gansu China
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Ancient Chinese customs post on Silk Road near Dunhuang.
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Bukhara, which is situated on the Silk Route, is more than 2,000 years old. It is the most complete example of a medieval city in Central Asia, with an urban fabric that has remained largely intact. Monuments of particular interest include the famous tomb of Ismail Samani, a masterpiece of 10th-century Muslim architecture, and a large number of 17th-century madrasas.
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Sevan, Armenia. On the Great Silk Road.
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Afghanistan Kuchi Nomad. The Silk Road contained three major routes leading westward from Chang'an, ... and the southern to the regions which now include Afghanistan, Iran, and India.
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Silver dirham coin minted in Almaty in 684 AD. Almaty was under the Russian Empire from 1867 to 1921 and under the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1993, is the former capital of Kazakhstan. In the 10–14th centuries, settlements in the territory of the so called "Big Almaty" became part of the trade routes of the Silk Road. At that time, Almaty became one of the trade, craft and agricultural centers on the Silk Road and possessed an official mint.