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The actual location of Karakorum was long unclear. First hints that Karakorum was located at Erdene Zuu were already known in the 18th century, but until the 20th century there was a dispute whether or not the ruins of Karabalgasun, or Ordu-Baliq, were in fact those of Karakorum.
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English: Topographical map of India and Himalaya region with Karakoram fault superimposed on top of it. Karakoram overlay created from information from [1]
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Stones from the nearby ruins of the ancient Mongol capital of Karakorum were used in its construction. [4] Planners attempted to create a surrounding wall that resembled a Tibetan Buddhist rosary featuring 108 stupas (108 being a sacred number in Buddhism), [5] but this objective was probably never achieved. [6]
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The ruins of the palace or temple complex (360x404 meters) laying at coordinates — which include ten-meter-high double clay walls four meters apart, 14 watch towers—eight on the southern side and six on the northern side—two main entrances, one on the east and the other on the west, a twelve-meter-high citadel in the southeast corner and ...
Ruins of Ordu-Baliq at the site known as Kharbalgas in Mongolian, an 8th-century capital of the Uyghur Khaganate, which cover 50 square km and contain evidence of the palace, shops, temples, monasteries, etc. Ruins of Mongol capital of Karakorum. Erdene Zuu monastery is the first Buddhist monastery established in Mongolia. It was partly ...