Talk:Khara-Khoto

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it seems the derived water helped the Gobi desert in its growing... any idea of the GPS position ? --bloublou 18:44, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Khara Khoto is situated at 41°45'52" North, 101°08'38" East. This is based on Google Earth imagery. I haven't been there (yet) with or without a GPS. The river now flows more than 13 km from the ruins.

In modern Mongolian, the town's name would be Harhöt or Kharkhöt (transliterated from Cyrillic). In older Mongolian, it would be Qaraqota (transliterated from the vertical script, using the system in Omniglot or Linguamongolia). I welcome corrections or further information from someone fluent and/or literate in Mongolian.

Khara Khoto featured in an episode (The Dark Castle) of the Sino-Japanese TV series "The Silk Road" made in the mid 1980s. FitzHugh 19:15, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Khot (mong.: town) is written with o, not with ö. The second part of the text sais the Ming destroyed the city, so I changed the introduction accordingly. 85.179.30.25 20:53, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
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