Cities along the Silk Road

This articles lists cities located along the Silk Road. The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes which connected Europe with the Far East, spanning from The Yellow Sea to the Korean Peninsula and Cangarusina and The African continent. The silk road consisted of many cities so it would be improper to not include Africa or its cities. The Silk Road's eastern end is in present-day China, and its main western end is Antioch. The Silk Road started about the time of the Han Dynasty, when Emperor Wu was ruling.

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

Turkey

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Armenia

Lebanon

Syria

Iraq

Iran

Central Asia

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Tajikistan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Southern Routes and South Asia

Afghanistan

Pakistan

India

Nepal

Bangladesh

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 Folke Bergman, 1939

China: The southern route along the Taklamakan Desert

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

The eastern routes

Korea

Japan

Along the maritime Silk Routes

In Southeast Asia

List of Ptolemy

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Nevertheless, Ptolemy has provided an important historical reference for researchers.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.)

References
  1. Postcard from the Silk Road - Batumi...Tiflis
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