Historical place profile
Lithinos Pyrgos
Lithinos Pyrgos (now Tashkurgan, Xinjiang in China (塔什库尔干镇)) was a settlement located along the Silk Road. During the Han Dynasty the site was a major center of the Kingdom of Puli (蒲犁).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:59897
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:59897
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 37.774616, 75.229330
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Lithinos Pyrgos (now Tashkurgan, Xinjiang in China (塔什库尔干镇)) was a settlement located along the Silk Road. During the Han Dynasty the site was a major center of the Kingdom of Puli (蒲犁).
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: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 D2 Lithinos Pyrgos
Source and reuse
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Research path
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