Khara-Khoto
Ruined city in Inner Mongolia, China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Khara-Khoto (Chinese: 黑水城; Mongolian: Хар хот (Khar Khot); "black city")[1] is an abandoned city in the Ejin Banner of Alxa League in western Inner Mongolia, China, near the Juyan Lake Basin. Built in 1032, the city thrived under the rule of the Western Xia dynasty, or known as Tangut Empire. It has been identified as the city of Etzina, which appears in The Travels of Marco Polo, and Ejin Banner is named after this city.