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680:. Fu Jiezi gained entry to Loulan by claiming to carry silk and valuables as gifts for the king. After the king of Loulan became drunk after receiving his gifts, Fu Jiezi's guard stabbed him to death, severed his head and had it hung from a tower above the northern gate. Upon completing the assassination, the guard supposedly proclaimed: "The Son of Heaven (Han Emperor Zhao) has sent me to punish the king, by reason of his crime in turning against the Han...Han troops are about the arrive here; do not dare to make any move which would result in yourselves bringing about the destruction of your state." While the king's younger brother Weituqi (尉屠耆) succeeded him as king, the Han court apparently tightened its grip on Loulan from this point – a step symbolized by the Han court obliging Loulan to adopt a new official name, the non-native 661:
had been castrated for infringing Han law, without the knowledge of Loulan. The Han court replied that its Emperor had grown too fond of the prince to release him, and that another son should be enthroned in Loulan. The son of the new king was also sent to the Han court as a hostage, yet another was sent to the Xiongnu. After the death of this king of Loulan, the Xiongnu returned the hostage sent previously by Loulan – a prince named Chang Gui or An Gui (嘗歸 or 安歸), who became king of Loulan. When the Han court heard of this, it demanded that the new king present himself to the Han court. Chang Gui refused, on his wife's advice – because the Han court had previously failed to return hostages.
665: 1043: 830: 1280: 717: 66: 101: 73: 94: 706: 466: 1158: 1088: 1130:– A fortified town lying 30 km to the northeast of L.A. It is the only known city in the region with a northern gate. Since a northern gate was mentioned in the Han Chinese text about the assassination of the king of Loulan, it has therefore been suggested to be the capital of Loulan in the 1st century BCE, before the Han Chinese gained control the region. Others, however, argue that the northern gate does not refer to Loulan but 541:. Genetic analysis of the mummies, however, suggests that the Early–Middle Bronze Age population may have arisen from an ancient genetically isolated local population but were possibly influenced by the pastoralist and agriculturalist practices of their neighbours. The mummies were wrapped in cotton and silk, the former from the west and latter from the east, further providing evidence as to Loulan's commercial importance. 996:", due to its relatedness to the two other Tocharian languages. It has been partially reconstructed from around 100 loanwords and over a thousand proper names used in these Prakrit documents that cannot be ascribed to Indic. In 2018, documents from Loulan written in Tocharian C were published, indicating a relationship to Tocharian A and B, but transcription of the texts in this study has been rejected by other scholars. 45: 550: 638:(or Jushi). Consequently, in 108 BCE, Loulan was attacked by a Han force led by Zhao Ponu (趙破奴) and its king captured, after which Loulan agreed to pay a tribute to Han China. The Xiongnu, on hearing of these events, also attacked Loulan. The king of Loulan therefore elected to send one of his sons as a hostage to the Xiongnu and another to the Han court. Due to Loulan's association with the Xiongnu, the 537:, have been found in Loulan and in its surrounding areas. One female mummy has been dated to c. 1800 BCE (3,800-year-old), indicating very early settlement of the region. The disinterred corpses were not Chinese or Indian but had fair hair and light skin, some over six feet in length; this has led to suggestions that those from the Shanshan kingdoms were descendants of migrants from the 930: 607: 1139:– 10 km to the northwest of L.A., containing building foundations and a cemetery. Archaeologists discovered the body of a young man in a wooden coffin, wearing a felt hat and leather boots and lying under a woolen blanket. A bunch of ephedra twigs was placed beside him in a similar fashion to many much older burials found in the region. 1120:– A walled settlement lying to the north of the lake. The thick wall is made of packed earth and straw and was over 1,000 feet (300 m) on each side and 20 feet (6.1 m) thick at the base. It contains a large stupa and some administrative buildings and was occupied for a long time. It is usually thought to be the city of Loulan. 749:
recommended that a Chinese colony of 500 men be established in Loulan. A later military colony was established at Loulan by General Suo Man. It was recorded that in 222 CE, Shanshan sent tribute to China, and that in 283, the son of the king was sent as a hostage to the Chinese court during the reign
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The Han emperor was satisfied with the statement and released the king, but retained his son as hostage. When this particular king of Loulan died, in 92 BCE, his court requested that the Han court release the king's son and heir be returned to Loulan. In the meantime, however, this prince from Loulan
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country rugged and hilly, with a thin and barren soil. The clothes of the common people are coarse, and like those worn in our land of Han, some wearing felt and others coarse serge or cloth of hair; — this was the only difference seen among them. The king professed (our) Law, and there might be in
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went with a small group of followers to Shanshan, which was also receiving a delegation from the Xiongnu at the same time. Ban Chao killed the Xiongnu envoys and presented their heads to the King, after which King Guang of Shanshan submitted to Han authority. This would ensure the first step of the
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and identified many sites in the area. He designated these sites with the letter L (for Loulan), followed by a letter of the alphabet (A to T) allocated in the chronological order the sites were visited. Stein recovered many artifacts, including various documents, a wool-pile carpet fragment, some
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The Emperor commanded Wen to lead the troops by a suitable route, to arrest the king of Lou-lan and to bring him to the palace at the capital city. interrogated by presenting him with a bill of indictment, which he answered by claiming that was a small state lying between large states, and that
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to Loulan. Although Gandhari was used as the administrative language, some words generally thought to be of Tocharian origin are found in the documents, suggesting that the locals spoke a language that belongs to the Tocharian group of languages. This original language of Loulan is referred to as
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After the Han dynasty had gained control of Loulan, the renamed kingdom of Shanshan became a Chinese puppet state. The newly installed king, fearing retribution from the sons of the assassinated king, requested that a contingent of Han forces be established in Yixun (伊循, variously identified as
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Because of its strategic position on what became the main route from China to the West, during the Han dynasty, control of it was regularly contested between the Chinese and the Xiongnu until well into the 2nd century CE.
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Charklik or Miran). Chinese army officers were sent to colonize the area, and an office of commandant was established at Yixun. A number of settlements in the Tarim Basin such as Qiemo and Niya were described in the
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The land is sandy and salt, and there are few cultivated fields. The state hopes to obtain cultivated fields and look to neighbouring states for field-crops. It produces jade and there is an abundance of
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passed through this region in 644 on his return from India to China, visited a town called Nafubo (納縛波, thought to be Charklik) of Loulan, and wrote of Qiemo, "A fortress exists, but not a trace of man".
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as independent states, but these later became part of Shanshan. While the name of the kingdom was changed to Shanshan by the Chinese, the Loulan region continued to be known as Kroran by the locals.
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as far north as the Taklamakan desert, to important trading cities like Loulan and its commercial rival Niya. This is evidenced by graffiti carved on stones along the route in Indic scripts such as
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In 77 BCE, after several Han envoys had been intercepted and killed in or near Loulan, a Chinese delegation was sent with orders to assassinate the king of Loulan, including an envoy named
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unless it subjected itself to both parties, there would be no means of keeping itself in safety; he therefore wished to remove his kingdom and take up residence within the Han territory.
1075:(266–420), which recorded that the area was called "Krorän" by the locals in Kharosthi but was rendered as "Lou-lan" in Chinese. Hedin also proposed that a change in the course of the 449:. It was intermittently under Chinese control from the early Han dynasty onward until its abandonment centuries later. The ruins of Loulan are near the now-desiccated Lop Nur in the 921:
entitled "Lou-lan" recounts the continual flux of control in the area and how the inhabitants dealt with Chinese & nomadic invaders throughout its relatively short history.
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Kazuo Enoki (1998), "Yü-ni-ch’êng and the Site of Lou-Lan," and "The Location of the Capital of Lou-Lan and the Date of the Kharoshthi Inscriptions," in Rokuro Kono (ed),
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In 1979 and 1980, three archaeological expeditions sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Xinjiang Branch performed excavations in Loulan. They discovered a
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in 77 BCE; however, the town at the northwestern corner of Lop Nur retained the name of Loulan. The kingdom included at various times settlements such as
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15 feet (4.6 m) deep and 55 feet (17 m) wide running through Loulan from northwest to southeast, a 32-foot (9.8 m) high earthen
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believed to be remains of these people, for example the so-called "Beauty of Loulan" which was found by Chinese archaeologists in 1979–1980 at
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Downloadable article: "Evidence that a West-East admixed population lived in the Tarim Basin as early as the early Bronze Age" Li et al.
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were present in the area in 313 CE, as well as Han Chinese and Tibetan tribesmen, indicating an ethnically diverse population in Loulan.
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in reconstructed Han dynasty pronunciation, an approximation of Krorän). Centuries later in 664 CE the Tang Chinese Buddhist monk
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The Tarim Basin in the 3rd century, showing two sites of the town of Loulan, the Shanshan kingdom, and the related states
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Christopoulos, Lucas (August 2012), "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)," in Victor H. Mair (ed),
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mentioned a place in Loulan named "Nafupo" (納縛溥), which according to Dr. Hisao Matsuda is a transliteration of the
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script; their use in Loulan and elsewhere in the Tarim Basin was most likely due to the cultural legacy of the
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Krořän/Loulan and several other Indo-European oases kingdoms as Western Region Protectorate of the Han.
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The first contemporaneous mention of Loulan, in Chinese records, are from 126 BCE. A letter from the
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migrants from the Kushan Empire. These Gandharan migrants are also believed to have introduced
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After the 5th century, however, the land was frequently invaded by nomadic states such as
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The region remained under Chinese control intermittently, and when China was weak in the
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to the Chinese emperor, in which the Chanyu boasted of conquering Loulan, as well as the
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Fragment of carpet discovered by Aurel Stein in a refuse pit at Loulan. 3rd–4th century.
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The native name of Loulan was "Kroraina" or "Krorän", written in Chinese as Loulan 樓蘭 (
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Original text: 真君三年,鄯善王比龍避沮渠安周之難,率國人之半奔且末,後役屬鄯善。 Translation: In the third year of
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introduced irrigation techniques to the region by damming the Zhubin (possibly the
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The earliest known residents in Loulan are thought to have been a subgroup of the
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in 442 CE so Shanshan came to be ruled by Qiemo. In 445 Shanshan submitted to the
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The town of Loulan was abandoned in 330 CE, likely due to lack of water when the
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of the Tarim Basin. Excavations in Loulan and the surrounding areas have found
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The official language found in 3rd century CE documents in this region is
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By the 2nd century BC, Loulan had grown to dominate the region around the
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resulted in Lop Nur drying up may be the reason why Loulan had perished.
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who stayed in Shanshan in 399 on the way to India, described the country:
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the country more than four thousand monks who were all students of the
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along the trade route). From here, Loulan was on the main route from
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Original text: 从此东行六百余里至折摩驮那故国。即涅末地也。城郭岿然人烟断绝。复此东北行千余里至纳缚波故国。即楼兰地也。
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made further excavations in 1906 and 1914 around the old lake of
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Felt and feather hat from Loulan. Early Han dynasty 202 BCE–8 CE
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The famous historical short story by acclaimed Japanese author
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court (206 BCE – 220 CE) were described in some detail in the
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Other reported (2003) finds in the area include additional
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The Loulan kingdom and contemporary polities circa 100 BCE
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in the Tarim Basin. Documents found in Loulan showed that
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British Library. pp. 170–171. 2232:Tucker, Jonathan (18 December 2013). 783:. At the end of the 6th century, the 7: 4550:Populated places along the Silk Road 1974: 1760: 1715:A Dictionary of Gāndhārī – Krorayina 556:fragment uncovered in Loulan Kingdom 4545:Former populated places in Xinjiang 4510:Former countries in Chinese history 4439:Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription 2895:Protectorate of the Western Regions 2755:. London, UK: Thames & Hudson. 2447:, Tokyo: Kyu-Shoin, pp 200, 211–57. 825:Descriptions in historical accounts 399: 4434:Pul-i-Darunteh Aramaic inscription 3435:Silk Road transmission of Buddhism 2529:Bromberg, Carol (2006). "Review – 2498:, Oxford University Press, p. 98, 2485:, McFarland & Company, p. 134. 1014:meaning "new water." Sogdians, an 910:A Record of the Buddhist Countries 27:Ancient kingdom in Xinjiang, China 25: 4520:Former monarchies of Central Asia 3845:Desert castles of ancient Khorezm 2740:History of the Former Han Dynasty 2062:Charles F.W. Higham, ed. 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British Museum
Loulan Kingdom is located in Xinjiang
Loulan Kingdom is located in China
Xinjiang
China
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