Xilin Gol Biosphere Reserve is situated in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, about 600 km north of Beijing. It was established as China’s first grassland biosphere reserve in 1987 to protect the ...
During the height of the Silk Roads, numerous trade routes passed through the territories of the Sogdians who inhabited city states such as Samarkand, Bukhara, Khujand, and Panjikent, located in ...