Historical place profile
Koyuk Shahri
An ancient fortified site known as either Koyuk Shahri or Kuiyukexiehai'er that is located in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of north-western China preserves evidence of urban occupation in the Tarim Basin during the first millennium BCE. The site consists of a walled area of some 60,000 m² with an artificial mound at the center of the walled space.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:418515134
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:418515134
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 41.606417, 84.347250
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient fortified site known as either Koyuk Shahri or Kuiyukexiehai'er that is located in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of north-western China preserves evidence of urban occupation in the Tarim Basin during the first millennium BCE. The site consists of a walled area of some 60,000 m² with an artificial mound at the center of the walled space.
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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