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Khara-Khoto


Coordinates: 41°46′N 101°09′E / 41.767°N 101.150°E / 41.767; 101.150

Khara-Khoto (Mongolian: Khar Khot "black city") was a Tangut city in the Ejin Banner of Alxa League in western Inner Mongolia near Juyan Lake Basin. It has been identified as the city of Etzina, which appears in The Travels of Marco Polo. The present banner Ejin Banner is named after this city.

Khara-Khoto is known with many names, such as Chinese: 黑城 Hēichéng "black city", Eji Nai City (Tangut language, transcribed into Chinese as 亦集乃 Yijinai), Modern Mongolian Khar khot (Middle Mongol language:ᠬᠠᠷᠠ
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Khara Khoto, "black city") and to Chinese as Heishui City (Chinese: 黑城 Hēichéng "black city" or 黑水城 Hēishuǐchéng, "black water city").


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