Cities along the Silk Road
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The Silk Roads.
Along the terrestrial/land Silk Roads
Major cities, broadly from the eastern Mediterranean to South Asia, and arranged roughly west to east in each area by modern-day country
The Silk Roads across the Middle east and Western asia
- Constantinople, ancient Byzantium, (now Istanbul), Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire & Ottoman Empire
- Bursa
- Beypazarı
- Mudurnu
- Taraklı
- Konya
- Adana
- Antioch
- Izmir
- Trabzon
- Kermanshah
- Hamadan
- Rey (or Ray in modern-day Tehran)
- Hecatompylos (Damghan)
- Sabzevar
- Nishapur
- Mashhad
- Tus
- Bam
- Yazd
- Qazvin
Central Asia
Otrar Ispidjab (or Sairum)
Southern Routes and South Asia
- Leh
- Jaisalmer
- Mathura
- Varanasi (or Benares)
- Pataliputra
- Nalasopara(SOPARA)
- Wari-Bateshwar
- Pundranagara
- Vikrampura
- Somapura
- Bhitargarh
- Sonargaon
- Chattagram/Chatgaon/Chittagong
- Comilla/Mainamati/Samatata
- Jahangir Nagar/Dhaka
Bhutan
The chain of cities along the northern route along the Taklamakan, probably based on Bento de Góis's itinerary, from Hiarcan (Yarkand) to Cialis (Karasahr or Korla) to Sucieu (Suzhou, Gansu)
China: The northern route along the Taklamakan Desert
Map of eastern Xinjiang with prehistoric sites and the courses of the Silk Roads by Folke Bergman, 1939
- Kashgar (or Kashi)
- Liqian
- Aksu
- Kucha
- Korla
- Loulan
- Karasahr (Yanqi)
- Turpan (Turfan)
- Gaochang
- Chang'an
- Kumul/Hami
- Ürümqi
- Yumen Pass (or Jade Gate or Pass of the Jade Gate) (city called Yumenguan or Hecang)
- Anxi
China: The southern route along the Taklamakan Desert
- Kashgar (or Kashi)
- Yarkand
- Pishan
- Khotan
- Niya
- Mingfeng
- Endere
- Charchan
- Waxxari
- Ruoqiang Town (Charklik)
- Miran
- Yangguan, or Yangguan Pass
- Dunhuang
- the Mogao Caves
- Anxi
China: From Anxi/Dunhuang to Chang'an (Xi'an)
The ruins of a Han Dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD) Chinese watchtower made of rammed earth at Dunhuang, Gansu province, the eastern edge of the Silk Road
- Dunhuang
- Jiayuguan
- Jiuquan
- Zhangye
- Shandan
- Liangzhou (Wuwei)
- Tianzhu, Gansu
- Lanzhou
- Tianshui
- Baoji
- Chang'an (modern-day Xi'an)
The eastern routes
Along the maritime Silk Routes
- Debal, Pakistan
- Ningbo, China
- Fuzhou, China
- Quanzhou, China
- Guangzhou, China
- Ulsan, Korea
- Chittagong, Bangladesh
- Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Poompuhar, Tamil Nadu, India
- Madras,Tamil Nadu,India
- Korkai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Muziris, Kerala, India
- Goa, India
- Mumbai, India
- Cochin, India
- Masulipatnam, India
- Lothal, India
- Astrakhan, Russia
- Derbent, Russia
- Sudak, Russia
- Muscat, Oman
- Aden, Yemen
- Suez, Egypt
- Ayas, Turkey
- Venice, Italy
- Rome, Italy
In Southeast Asia
- Kedah (Early history of Kedah)
- Langkasuka
- Ligor
- Chi Tu
- Gangga Nagara
- Malacca
- Pan Pan
- Funan, Khmer
- Muziris, India
- Chenla, Khmer
- Vijaya of Champa
- Khmer / Kambuja
- Hanoi, Vietnam
- Hoi An, Vietnam
- Srivijaya, Indonesia
- Pasai, Indonesia
- Perlak, Indonesia
List of Ptolemy
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This following list is attributed to Ptolemy. All city names are Ptolemy's, throughout all his works. Most of the names are included in Geographia.
Some of the cities provided by Ptolemy either
- do not longer exist today OR
- have moved to different locations
Nevertheless, Ptolemy has provided an important historical reference for researchers.
(This list has been alphabetized.)
- Africa
- East Africa - Akhmim, Aromaton Emporion, Axum, Coloe, Dongola, Juba, Maji, Opone, Panopolis, Sarapion, Sennar.
- North Africa - Caesarea, Carthage, Cyrene, Leptis Magna, Murzuk, Sijilmassa, Tamanrasset, Tingis.
- Arabia - Cane, Eudaemon Amrabia, Moscha, Mosyllon, Sana, Zafār (Saphar), Saue.
- Bangladesh - Sounagaora.
- China - Cattigara, Chengdu, Kaifeng, Kitai, Kunming, Yarkand.
- Europe - Aquileia, Athens, Augusta Treverorum (Trier), Gades (Cadiz), Ostia.
- India - Argaru, Astakapra, Bacare, Balita, Barake, Byzantion, Colchi, Erannoboas, Horaia, Kalliena, Mandagora, Melizeigara, Muziris, korkai, Poompuhar, Naura, Nelcynda, Paethana (Paithan), Palaepatmae, Palaesimundu, Poduca, Semylla, Sopatma, Suppara (Nalasopara), Tagara, Tymdis.
- Pakistan - Barbaricum, Peshawer, Taxilla
- Persia - Alexandria Areion, Kandahar, Persepolis.
- Persian Gulf - Apologos, Asabon, Charax, Gerrha (or Gerra), Ommana.
- Red Sea - Adulis, Aualites, Berenica, Malao, ancient Berbera, Muza, Myos Hormos, Ocalis, Ptolemais Theron.
- South East Asia - Kattigara (Oc Eo), Thaton, Trang.
- Unknown - Ecbatana (located in either modern Iran or Syria), Jiaohei.
