Hami
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Hami, or Kumul, is a prefecture-level city in eastern Xinjiang, China. It is well known for sweet Hami melons. In early 2016, the former Hami county-level city merged with Hami Prefecture to form the
Mosque in Hami panoramio
Uyghur people from Hami, in Anxi subprefecture. Huang Qing Zhigong Tu, 1769
Hami Railway Station
Hami Airport
Yuezhi
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The Yuezhi were an ancient people first described in Chinese histories as nomadic pastoralists living in an arid grassland area in the western part of the modern Chinese province of Gansu, during the
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…resources. Cumuḍa (sometimes Cimuda or Cunuda) is the oldest known endonym of Hami, when it was founded by a people known in Han Chinese sources as the Xiao Yuezhi ("Lesser Yuezhi"), during the 1st millennium BCE. The oldest attested Chinese name is "昆莫" (Kūnmò). By the time of the Han dynasty, it was referred to…
Noin Ula nobleman and priest over fire altar
Yuezhi migrations
Figures in one of the embroidered carpets of the Xiongnu Noin-Ula burial site, a luxury item probably imported from Bactria. They are thought to represent Yuezhis. 1st century BC - 1st century AD.
A later mural (c. 618–712 AD) from the Mogao Caves, depicting the Chinese mission of Zhang Qian to the Yuezhi in 126 BC.