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Gaochang

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: You Zai Shih
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, World Historical Gazetteer
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Jan 20, 2026 01:21 PM — History
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Gaochang is the site of an ancient oasis city located on the northern rim of the inhospitable Taklamakan Desert in present-day Xinjiang, China.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/999273476

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You Zai Shih, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, and World Historical Gazetteer, 'Gaochang: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/999273476> [accessed: 14 February 2026] 

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