Kucha
Ancient Buddhist kingdom on the northern edge of the Taklamakan Desert / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the ancient kingdom. For the modern county in Xinjiang, China, see Kuqa County. For the region of Ethiopia, see Kucha (woreda).
Kucha or Kuche (also: Kuçar, Kuchar; Uyghur: كۇچار, Кучар; Chinese: 龜茲; pinyin: Qiūcí, Chinese: 庫車; pinyin: Kùchē; Sanskrit: 𑀓𑀽𑀘𑀻𑀦, romanized: Kūcīna)[1] was an ancient Buddhist kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the northern edge of what is now the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin and south of the Muzat River.
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Kucha 龜茲 | |||||||
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2nd century BCE–648 CE | |||||||
Religion | Buddhism | ||||||
Demonym(s) | Kuchean | ||||||
History | |||||||
• Established | 2nd century BCE | ||||||
648 CE | |||||||
Population | |||||||
• 111 CE | 81,317 | ||||||
Currency | Kucha coinage | ||||||
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Today part of | China |
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The former area of Kucha now lies in present-day Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. Kuqa town is the county seat of Aksu Prefecture's Kuqa County. Its population was given as 74,632 in 1990.