Inscription of Yanran
The Inscription on the Ceremonial Mounding of Mount Yanran is an inscription composed by the historian Ban Gu of the Eastern Han dynasty and carved by the general Dou Xian on a cliff in the Yanran Mountains in 89 AD, to commemorate Dou's victory against the nomadic Xiongnu Empire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Badamsambu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Memorial
- Description: Han dynasty inscription on a cliff in the Yanran Mountains (89 AD)
- Also known as: “Inscription on the Ceremonial Mounding of Mount Yanran”
Inscription of Yanran
- Categories: petroglyph and historic site
- Location: Middle Govĭ, Mongolia, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
45.1779° or 45° 10′ 40″ northLongitude
104.5542° or 104° 33′ 15″ eastInception
August 0089Open location code
8PQ65HH3+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 11432314568OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q15926005
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Vietnamese—“Inscription of Yanran” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “封燕然山銘”
- Chinese: “燕然勒石”
- French: “Inscription de Yanran”
- Indonesian: “Prasasti Yanran”
- Literary Chinese: “燕然勒石”
- Turkish: “Yanran Yazıtı”
- Vietnamese: “Phong Yên Nhiên sơn minh”
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