Tarim Basin ialah cekungan endoreik besar di Barat Laut China yang merangkumi kawasan seluas 906,500 km2 (350,000 bt2).[1] Terletak di kawasan Xinjiang China, kadang kala secara metonimi disebut sebagai separuh wilayah selatan, atau Nanjiang (Turki: tarım havzası, Bahasa Cina: 南疆pinyin: Nánjiāng; secara harfiahnya "Xinjiang Selatan"). Di utaranya kawasan ini bersempadan dengan Pegunungan Tian Shan dan bahagian selatannya bersempadan dengan Pergunungan Kunlun di pinggir Dataran tinggi Qinghai-Tibet. Gurun Taklamakan mendominasi sebahagian besar cekungan ini. Nama Uyghur bersejarah untuk Tarim Basin ini ialah Altishahr (六域), yang bermaksud "enam bandar" dalam bahasa Uyghur.

Tarim Basin

  Tarim Basin
Nama Cina
Bahasa Cina: 塔里木盆地
Nanjiang
Bahasa Cina: 南疆
Maksud harfiah: Xinjiang Selatan
Nama Uyghur
Bahasa Uyghur: تارىم ئويمانلىقى

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Rujukan sunting

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Pautan luar sunting

  • Rencana yang dapat diunduh: "Bukti bahawa populasi campuran Barat-Timur tinggal di Cekungan Tarim sedini awal Zaman Gangsa" Li et al. BMC Biology 2010, 8:15. [4]
  • Silk Road Seattle - University of Washington (Tapak web Silk Road Seattle berisi banyak sumber daya yang berguna termasuk sejumlah teks lengkap karya-karya sejarah)
  • The International Dunhuang Project
  • Along the ancient silk routes: Central Asian art from the West Berlin State Museums, katalog pameran dari The Metropolitan Muzium of Art (tersedia dalam format PDF), yang mengandung jirim dari Cekungan Tarim