Khara-Khoto
Khara-Khoto, also known as Heicheng, is an abandoned city near the Juyan Lake in the sum of Bayan Toroi, about 25 km south of the seat of Ejin Banner in Alxa League at the western end of Inner Mongolia, China. Built in 1032, the city thrived under the rule of the Tangut-led Western Xia dynasty. It has been identified as the city of Etzina, which appears in The Travels of Marco Polo, and hence today's Ejin Banner is named after this city.
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Khara-Khoto, also known as Heicheng, is an abandoned city near the Juyan Lake in the sum of Bayan Toroi, about 25 km south of the seat of Ejin Banner in Alxa League at the western end of Inner Mongolia, China. Built in 1032, the city thrived under the rule of the Tangut-led Western Xia dynasty. It has been identified as the city of Etzina, which appears in The Travels of Marco Polo, and hence today's Ejin Banner is named after this city.
==Name== Khara-Khoto is known by many names, including its Tangut endonym (Tangut script: , 'black water', reconstructed pronunciation: /*zjɨ̱r²-nja̱¹/, transcribed into Chinese as 亦集乃 Yijinai), Etzina through Marco Polo, modern Mongolian Хар хот (Khar khot, Middle Mongol language: qara qota, 'black city') and to the Chinese as Heishuicheng or Heishui City (), commonly abbreviated as Heicheng (). It is also written Qara-Qoto.