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Hotan (hô`tän`) or Khotan (kō`tän`), city and oasis (1994 est. pop. 75,900), SW Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, near the headstream of the Hotan River; the name sometimes appears as Ho-t'ien. It is the center of an area growing cotton, corn, wheat, rice, and fruit. Silk and cotton textiles and carpets are manufactured, and jewelry is made from the great quantity of jade in the area. Hotan is connected by road with Kashi (Kashgar) and Ürümqi (Urumchi).

On the southern part of the Silk Road, Hotan was an early center for the spread of Buddhism from India into China. It fell to the Arabs in the 8th cent., and grew wealthy on the proceeds of the caravan trade that traveled the route between China and the West. Its prosperity ended with the conquest of Hotan by Jenghiz Khan Jenghiz Khan or Genghis Khan , Mongolian Chinggis Khaan 1167?–1227, Mongol conqueror, originally named Temujin. He succeeded his father, Yekusai, as chieftain of a Mongol tribe and then fought to become ruler of a Mongol confederacy.
..... Click the link for more information. . After many political changes the region became (1878) permanently part of China.

Hotan, Hotien, Ho-t'ien

1. an oasis in W China, in the Taklimakan Shamo desert of central Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, around the seasonal Hotan River

2. the chief town of this oasis, situated at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains. Pop.: 71 600 (latest est.)

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No references found	Pocha HETIAN, China--On a recent Friday, the holy day of Islam, crowds swelled inside the antique Jame mosque, the largest in this ancient town in Xinjiang Province in the far west of China, home to the nation's small but restive Muslim minority. Muslim voices rising in China by The Star (Amman, Jordan) In images such as Two Miners, Datong, Shanxi Province, 1996, or Xinjiang Girl Working in a Textile Factory, Hetian, Xinjiang Province, 1996, labor is sordidly, hauntingly personified, while in Two Rich Men on New Year's Eve, Beijing, 1999, and A Chinese Girl with a Foreign Friend, Beijing, 1996, its effects are likewise sharply drawn. Liu Zheng: Yossi Milo Gallery by Hudson, Suzanne / Artforum International There is reason to believe that the Yuezhi were instrumental in bringing the famous jade stones of the distant Hetian oasis in central Asia to dynastic China. Genghis Khan: Treasures from Inner Mongolia by Kessler, Adam T. / USA Today (Magazine)	Heterotopia heterotopic heterotopic epithelium heterotopic faces heterotopic ligands heterotopic pregnancy heterotopic transplantation Heterotrichida Heterotrichina heterotrichous heterotroph Heterotrophic Bacteria heterotrophic ecosystem heterotrophic effect Heterotrophic Organisms heterotrophic succession heterotropia heterotropic enzyme heteroxenous heterozooid Heterozygosity Heterozygote heterozygote advantage heterozygote superiority heterozygous Hetian Hetman Hetmanate HETP Hettangian Hettinger County Hettner, Alfred heulandite Heulinger equations Heurigen Parties Heuristic heuristic algorithm heuristic method heuristic program heuristic routine heuristics heuristics testing Heuser, Herman J. Heusler alloy Heuss, Theodor Hevea hevea rubber Hevelian halo Hevelius's parhelia Hevelius, Johannes Heves	heterozygosity heterozygote heterozygote heterozygote Heterozygote advantage heterozygote detection heterozygote superiority Heterozygote/Heterozygotes Heterozygotes Heterozygotes Heterozygotes heterozygotic heterozygous heterozygous heterozygous Heterozygous advantage Heterozygous Diabetes Insipidus HETF HETG HETGA HETGS heth heth Hethersett Old Hall School Hethert Hethert Hething Hethites HETHR HETI Hetian Hétián Hétián Hetis Hetis HETL HETLA hetman hetman Hetmanat Hetmanate hetmans hetmans hetmen hetmen HETN HETO HETP HETP HETPA HETPAK HETPF Hetq HETRA Hetreosexual Hetreosexual Hetreosexual Hetrick-Martin Institute Hetrodyne Hetrodyning Hetroflexible

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Pocha HETIAN, China--On a recent Friday, the holy day of Islam, crowds swelled inside the antique Jame mosque, the largest in this ancient town in Xinjiang Province in the far west of China, home to the nation's small but restive Muslim minority.

Muslim voices rising in China by The Star (Amman, Jordan)

In images such as Two Miners, Datong, Shanxi Province, 1996, or Xinjiang Girl Working in a Textile Factory, Hetian, Xinjiang Province, 1996, labor is sordidly, hauntingly personified, while in Two Rich Men on New Year's Eve, Beijing, 1999, and A Chinese Girl with a Foreign Friend, Beijing, 1996, its effects are likewise sharply drawn.

Liu Zheng: Yossi Milo Gallery by Hudson, Suzanne / Artforum International

There is reason to believe that the Yuezhi were instrumental in bringing the famous jade stones of the distant Hetian oasis in central Asia to dynastic China.

Genghis Khan: Treasures from Inner Mongolia by Kessler, Adam T. / USA Today (Magazine)

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