Miran
Mirān is a former city that existed until the 1st millennium, on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, China. Located at an oasis, where the Lop Nur desert meets the Altun Shan mountains, Miran was once a major point on the Silk Road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: archaeological site
- Also known as: “Mi-lan”, “Milan Site”, “Miran Site”, “Miran-tarium”, “Mo-lang”, and “Mu-lan”
Miran
- Category: archaeological site
- Location: Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Uighur—“Miran” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Miran”
- Central Bikol: “Miran (Xinjiang)”
- Central Bikol: “Miran”
- Chinese: “米兰遗址”
- Chinese: “米蘭遺址”
- Dutch: “Miran”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميران”
- French: “Miran”
- German: “Miran”
- Indonesian: “Miran”
- Italian: “Miran”
- Japanese: “ミーラン遺跡”
- Kazakh: “Миран (шұрат)”
- Kazakh: “Миран”
- Korean: “미란”
- Lithuanian: “Miranas”
- Polish: “Miran”
- Russian: “Миран (оазис)”
- Russian: “Миран”
- Turkish: “Miran”
- Uighur: “Miren”
- Uighur: “Mirən”
- Uighur: “Мирән”
- Uighur: “مىرەن”
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