- Source: Cities along the Silk Road
This articles 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 Sea to the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
The Silk Road's eastern end is in present-day China, and its main western end is Antioch. The Silk Road started about the time of the Han dynasty, when Emperor Wu was ruling.
Along the terrestrial/land Silk Roads
Major cities, broadly from the eastern Mediterranean to South Asia, and arranged roughly west to east in each area by modern-day country
= The Silk Roads across the Middle East and Western Asia
=Turkey
Constantinople, ancient Byzantium, (now Istanbul)
Bursa
Beypazarı
Mudurnu
Taraklı
Konya
Adana
Antioch
İzmir
Trabzon
Azerbaijan
Baku
Shamakhi
Barda
Georgia
Tbilisi (Tiflis)
Batumi (Batoum)
Poti
Armenia
Yerevan
Lebanon
Tyre
Syria
Aleppo
Tartus
Homs
Damascus
Palmyra
Raqqa
Dura Europos
Iraq
Mosul
Erbil
Samarra
Fallujah
Baghdad
Ctesiphon
Baquba
Iran
Tabriz
Zanjan
Rasht
Kermanshah
Hamadan
Rey (or Ray in modern-day Tehran)
Hecatompylos (Damghan)
Sabzevar
Nishapur
Mashhad
Tus
Bam
Yazd
Qazvin
Qumis (Hekatompylos)
= Central Asia
=Turkmenistan
Nisa
Merv
Urgench
Amul
Uzbekistan
Bukhara
Shahrisabz
Samarkand
Tashkent
Kokand (Fergana Valley)
Andijon (Fergana Valley)
Tajikistan
Khujand (Fergana Valley)
Istaravshan
Kazakhstan
Otrar
Ispidjab (or Sairum)
Taraz
Hazrat-e Turkestan
Almaty
Kyrgyzstan
Issyk kul
Tokmok
Bishkek
Osh
= Southern Routes and South Asia
=Afghanistan
Bactra (Balkh)
Herat
Alexandria Arachosia (Kandahar)
Bamyan
Kabul
Pakistan
Purusapura
Pushkalavati
Takshashila
Multan
Banbhore/Barbarikon
Debal/Patala
India
Tamralipta (or Tamluk)
Leh
Jaisalmer
Mathura
Varanasi (or Benares)
Pataliputra
Nepal
Kathmandu – see also Patan & Bhaktapur
Bangladesh
Wari-Bateshwar
Pundranagara
Vikrampura
Somapura
Bhitargarh
Sonargaon
Chattagram/Chatgaon/Chittagong
Comilla/Mainamati/Samatata
Jahangir Nagar/Dhaka
Bhutan
Jakar
Paro
= China: The northern route along the Taklamakan Desert
=Kashgar (or Kashi) (Major City)
Liqian
Aksu
Kucha
Korla
Loulan
Karasahr (Yanqi)
Turpan (Turfan)
Jiaohe Ruins
Turpan Water Museum
Gaochang
the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves
Chang'an
Kumul/Hami
Ürümqi
Yumen Pass (or Jade Gate or Pass of the Jade Gate) (city called Yumenguan or Hecang)
Anxi
= China: The southern route along the Taklamakan Desert
=Kashgar (or Kashi) (Major City)
Pishan
Khotan
Niya
Mingfeng
Endere
Charchan
Waxxari
Ruoqiang Town (Charklik)
Miran
Yangguan, or Yangguan Pass
Dunhuang
the Mogao Caves
Anxi
= China: From Anxi/Dunhuang to Chang'an (Xi'an)
=Dunhuang (Major City)
Jiayuguan
Jiuquan
Zhangye
Shandan
Liangzhou (Wuwei)
Tianzhu, Gansu
Lanzhou
Tianshui
Baoji
Chang'an (modern-day Xi'an)
Along the Indian Ocean trade routes
Pakistan
Debal
Barbarikon
Banbhore
China
Ningbo, China
Fuzhou, China
Quanzhou, China
Guangzhou, China
Bangladesh
Chittagong, Bangladesh
Sri Lanka
Colombo, Sri Lanka
India
Tamralipta, West Bengal, India
Poompuhar, Tamil Nadu, India
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Korkai, Tamil Nadu, India
Muziris, Kerala, India
Goa, India
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Cochin, Kerala, India
Masulipatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Lothal, Gujarat, India
Ukraine
Sudak, Ukraine
Russia
Astrakhan, Russia
Derbent, Russia
Oman
Muscat, Oman
Yemen
Aden, Yemen
Somalia
Bosaso, Somalia
Egypt
Suez, Egypt
Turkey
Ayas, Turkey
Italy
Venice, Italy
Rome, Italy
= In Southeast Asia
=Indonesia
Perlak, Indonesia
Malaysia
Kedah (Early history of Kedah)
Malacca
Philippines
Bolinao, Pangasinan, Philippines
Thailand
Ligor
Vietnam
Vijaya, Champa
Hanoi, Vietnam
Hoi An, Vietnam
List of Ptolemy
This following list is attributed to Ptolemy. All city names are Ptolemy's, throughout all his works. Most of the names are included in Geographia.
Some of the cities provided by Ptolemy either: no longer exist today or have moved to different locations.
Nevertheless, Ptolemy has provided an important historical reference for researchers.
(This list has been alphabetized.)
Africa
East Africa – Akhmim, Aromaton Emporion, Axum, Coloe, Dongola, Juba, Maji, Opone, Panopolis, Sarapion, Sennar.
North Africa – Caesarea, Carthage, Cyrene, Leptis Magna, Murzuk, Sijilmassa, Tamanrasset, Tingis.
Arabia – Cane, Eudaemon Arabia, Mocha, Mosylon, Sanaʽa, Zafār (Saphar), Saue.
Bangladesh – Sounagaora.
China – Cattigara, Chengdu, Kaifeng, Kitai, Kunming, Yarkand.
Europe – Aquileia, Athens, Augusta Treverorum (Trier), Gades (Cadiz), Ostia.
India – Argaru, Astakapra, Bacare, Balita, Barake, Byzantion, Colchi, Erannoboas, Horaia, Kalliena, Mandagora, Melizeigara, Muziris, korkai, Poompuhar, Naura, Nelcynda, Paethana (Paithan), Palaepatmae, Palaesimundu, Poduca, Semylla, Sopatma, Suppara (Nalasopara), Tagara, Tymdis.
Pakistan – Barbaricum, Peshawer, Taxilla
Persia – Alexandria Areion, Kandahar, Persepolis.
Persian Gulf – Apologos, Asabon, Charax, Gerrha (or Gerra), Ommana.
Red Sea – Adulis, Aualites, Berenica, Malao, ancient Berbera, Muza, Myos Hormos, Ocalis, Ptolemais Theron.
Southeast Asia – Kattigara (Oc Eo), Thaton, Trang.
Unknown – Ecbatana (located in either modern Iran or Syria), Jiaohei.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Jalur Sutra
- Karakorum
- Ekonomi Dinasti Han
- Daftar karakter Game of Thrones
- Daftar julukan kota di Amerika Serikat
- Daftar karya tentang Perusahaan Hindia Timur Belanda
- Persekutuan Franka-Mongol
- Cities along the Silk Road
- Silk Road
- Maritime Silk Road
- City-state
- Belt and Road Initiative
- Taklamakan Desert
- Aleppo pepper
- Turpan water system
- Silk Road Fund
- Slave market
