Kucha

Kucha (Modern Chinese Simplified: 库车, Traditional: 庫車, pinyin Kùchē, also romanized Chiu-tzu, Kiu-che, Kuei-tzu. Ancient Chinese 屈支 屈茨; 龜弦; 丘玆, also Po (bai in pinyin?); {{coor dm|41|39|N|82|54|E|}}). The population was given as 74,632 in 1990.

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Chinese - Pinyin

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Kucha was an ancient Buddhist kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the northern edge of the Taklamakan desert in the Tarim Basin. (The area lies in present day Xinjiang, China).

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Silk Road - Taklamakan - Tarim - Xinjiang - China

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Kucha was strongly influenced by Indian thought, and Indian kings are said to have reigned there. For a long time Kucha was the most populous oasis in the Tarim Basin. The language, as evidenced by ancient records, was Tocharian, an Indo-European language most closely related to ancient Celtic and Germanic languages.

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India - Tocharian - Indo-European - Celtic - Germanic languages

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