Site of Yar City
The Jiaohe ruins, known by the local Uyghur populace as Yarghul, is a ruined city in the Yarnaz Valley, 10 km west of the city of Turpan in Xinjiang, China.
- Archaeological site
- Description: abandoned city along the Silk Road in western China
- Also known as“Jiaohe City Ruins”“Jiaohe Ruins”“Yarkhoto”
Site of Yar City
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Latitude
42.9526° or 42° 57′ 9″ north
Longitude
89.06181° or 89° 3′ 43″ east
Open location code
8MJFX336+2P
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OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Site of Yar City” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Yarkhoto”
- Basque: “Jiaohe hondarrak”
- Catalan: “Jiaohe”
- Chinese: “交河城”
- Chinese: “交河故城”
- Chinese: “雅尔湖故城”
- French: “ruines de Jiaohe”
- French: “Ruines de Jiaohe”
- German: “Jiaohe gucheng”
- German: “Jiaohe”
- German: “Ya’erhu gucheng”
- German: “Yar-Khoto”
- German: “Yarkhoto”
- Hebrew: “חורבות ג’יאוחה”
- Indonesian: “Reruntuhan Jiaohe”
- Italian: “Yarkhoto”
- Japanese: “交河故城”
- Korean: “교하고성”
- Korean: “교하성”
- Korean: “자오허 고성”
- Lithuanian: “Dziaohė”
- Macedonian: “Урнатини Џјиаохе”
- Polish: “Jiaohe”
- Russian: “Цзяохэ (городище)”
- Russian: “Цзяохэ”
- Slovenian: “Ruševine Džjiaohe”
- Spanish: “Ruinas de Jiaohe”
- Spanish: “Ruinas de la antigua ciudad de Jiaohe”
- Tatar: “Җаохэ шәһәрчеге хәрәбәләре”
- Turkish: “Yarğol harabeleri”
- Uighur: “يارغۇل قەدىمكى شەھىرى”
- Vietnamese: “Phế tích Giao Hà”
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