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    Loulan (Chinese: 樓蘭; pinyin: Lóulán < Eastern Han Chinese lo-lɑn < Old Chinese rô-rân), also known as Kroraïna (Krorayina) in native Gandhari documents...
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    The Beauty of Loulan (楼兰美女), also Beauty of Krorän or Loulan Beauty, is the preserved dead body of a woman who lived around 1800 BCE in the Xinjiang region...
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    of Loulan, Miran and Xiaohe Cemetery. The Loulan Museum officially opened on May 3, 2011, with the floor space of 4,688 square meters. The Loulan Beauty...
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    Lop Nur (section Loulan)
    the kingdom of Loulan since the second century BC, an ancient civilisation along the Silk Road, which skirted the lake-filled basin. Loulan became a client...
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  • The Battle of Loulan (Chinese: 樓蘭之戰) in 108 BC marks the earliest military venture by the Western Han dynasty into the Tarim Basin, after a conflict with...
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    Beauty of Loulan was surrounded by funerary gifts. The Beauty of Loulan has been dated back to approximately 1800 BCE. The Beauty of Loulan lived around...
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    Kroraïna (Krorayina, Kröran) – which is commonly rendered in Chinese as Loulan. The Western Han dynasty took direct control of the kingdom some time after...
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  • Loulan J. Pitre Jr. (born December 1961) is a lawyer in New Orleans, Louisiana, who focuses his work on development, construction, and operations of energy...
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    Chinese army, he got the Loulan nobles to submit and make a brother of Angui, Weituqi (尉屠耆), who was friendly to Han, king. Loulan was renamed Shanshan....
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    — Hanshu, chapter 96a, translation from Hulsewé 1979. Niya became part of Loulan Kingdom by the third century. Towards the end of the fourth century it was...
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