Tributary network · approximate200 BCE – 1006 · 1206 years
Kingdom of Khotan
Overview
The Kingdom of Khotan, also called the Kingdom of Yutian, was an ancient Buddhist Saka kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin. The ancient capital was originally sited to the west of modern-day Hotan at Yotkan. From the Han dynasty until at least the Tang dynasty it was known in Chinese as Yutian. This largely Buddhist kingdom existed for over a thousand years until it was conquered by the Muslim Kara-Khanid Khanate in 1006, during the Islamization and Turkicization of Xinjiang.
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Borders & accuracy
A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.
- SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
- DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
- SNAPSHOT700 CE
- MATCHEDKhotan / southern Tarim Silk Road oases
- POLITY TYPEtributary
Khotan southern Tarim oases
Also during this period
No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.
- Three Kingdoms Wars184–280 CEWorld-changing · 36M dead
- Three Kingdoms Period (China)220–280 CEWorld-changing · 20M dead
- An Lushan Rebellion755–763 CEWorld-changing · 13M dead
- World-changing · 5.0M dead
- Gallic Wars58–50 BCEWorld-changing · 1.0M dead
- Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire375–476 CEWorld-changing · 1.0M dead
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 200 BCE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Kingdom of Khotan (200 BCE – 1006). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/asia-khotan · Sources & methodology