Dandan Oilik - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Dandan Oilik - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Dandan Oilik (), also Dandān-Uiliq, lit. "the houses with ivory", is an abandoned historic oasis town and Buddhist site in the Taklamakan Desert of China, located to the northeast of Khotan in what is now the autonomous region of Xinjiang, between the Khotan and Keriya rivers.(The map on this page gives the location of Dandan Oilik.) The central site covers an area of 4.5 km2; the greater oasis extends over an area of 22 km2. The site flourished from the sixth century as a site along the southern branch of the Silk Road Read more on Wikipedia
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