Historical place profile

Chintolgoi-Balgas

A major city of the Khitan People of Mongolia. The city was built in 1004, but has layers from before this period and up to the 16th-17th centuries. It was built on the site of an earlier settlement, Kedun.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:772613103
Catalogue ID
pleiades:772613103
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
47.874889, 104.246607
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

A major city of the Khitan People of Mongolia. The city was built in 1004, but has layers from before this period and up to the 16th-17th centuries. It was built on the site of an earlier settlement, Kedun.

Geographic evidence

The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.

Provenance: Pleiades

Source and reuse

This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.

Research path

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