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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An arid basin of northwest China south of the Tian Shan and north of the Kunlun Mountains. It is traversed by the Tarim River, which flows about 2,100 km (1,300 mi) eastward through the Taklamakan Desert to Lop Nur. The ancient Silk Road passed through the region.
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Lopnur (ph), a marshy depression at the east end of the Tarim Basin is a nuclear test site for which country?
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Although the terrain nowadays is so dry and wind-swept as to be almost uninhabitable, this area known as the Tarim Basin was once laced with rivers and dotted with oases hospitable enough for settlement.
latimes.com - News 2010
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Although the terrain nowadays is so dry and wind-swept as to be almost uninhabitable, this area known as the Tarim Basin was once laced with rivers and dotted with oases hospitable enough for settlement.
latimes.com - News 2010
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As she lay in a crate, surrounded by an astoundingly rich trove of cultural objects from the Tarim Basin, the Chinese government refused to give the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology permission to unload her and put her on view in its "Secrets of the Silk Road" exhibit.
Following controversy, mummies at Penn Museum remain objects of mystery 2011
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He also says that, while in the 1990s the Chinese found the material discovered in the Tarim Basin, especially that which testified to a far greater presence in the region, "a little difficult to take," he believes they will come along.
Following controversy, mummies at Penn Museum remain objects of mystery 2011
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The western branch of the Qarakhanids, which had been centered in Kashgar, attacked Khotan in 982 in their drive to gain control of the southern Tarim Basin branch of the Silk Route.
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Karakhoja (866 – 1209) of the Qocho Uighurs in the oases along the northern rim of the Tarim Basin.
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In the formerly Tibetan-controlled areas of Amdo, Gansu, and the Tarim Basin, for example, these states included
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Khotan (Li-yul) was a Buddhist kingdom on the Silk Route along the southwestern rim of the Tarim Basin, just north of western Tibet.
A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 1 The Empire of the Early Kings of Tibet 2009
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Specifically, Tibet recaptured Khotan in 790, thus gaining control of the entire southern Tarim Basin branch of the Silk Route.
A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 1 The Empire of the Early Kings of Tibet 2009
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