Khara-Khoto

Khara-Khoto (Chinese: 哈拉浩特; Mongolian: Хар хот (Khar Khot); "black city"),^[1] also known as Heishuicheng or Heishui City (Chinese: 黑水城), 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 Tangut-led Western Xia dynasty. 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.

^ Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman (1997). Liao Architecture. Hawaii, USA: University of Hawai'i Press. p. 432. ISBN 978-0-8248-1843-2. Retrieved 2009-07-04.