Burkhan Khaldun
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Oct 28, 2025 08:34 PM
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Burkhan Khaldun is a mountain that forms part of one of the Khentii Mountains located in the Khentii Province of northeastern Mongolia. The mountain and/or its vicinity is believed to be the birthplace and site of the tomb of Genghis Khan. The mountain and its landscapes were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 4 July 2015 under the heading "Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape."
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/920277483
48.7365002436, 109.03424986
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Burkhan Khaldun (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Burkhan Khaldun (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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cultural landscape, mountain
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, 'Burkhan Khaldun: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/920277483> [accessed: 18 November 2025]
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