The Qilian Mountains (simplified Chinese: 祁连山; traditional Chinese: 祁連山; pinyin: Qílián Shān; Wade–Giles: Ch'i2-lien2 Shan1, also romanized as Tsilien; Mongghul: Chileb), together with the Altyn-Tagh (Altun Shan) also known as Nan Shan (Chinese: 南山, literally "Southern Mountains"), as it is to the south of Hexi Corridor, is a northern outlier of the Kunlun Mountains, forming the border between Qinghai and the Gansu provinces of northern China.[1]
^The Journal of Asian studies. Vol. 62. Association for Asian Studies. 2003. p. 262. ISBN 0-691-09676-7. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
The QilianMountains Conifer Forests ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0517) is an ecoregion that consists of a series of isolated conifer forests on the northern slopes...
The QilianMountains subalpine meadows ecoregion (WWF ID: PA1015) covers the high meadows and shrubland of the QilianMountains, on the northeastern edge...
kilometres (930 mi) further east now known as the QilianMountains. The name of the Tannu-Ola mountains in Tuva has the same meaning. The Chinese name Tian...
Kunlun to mean the mountain belt that runs across the center of China, that is, Altyn Tagh along with the Qilian and Qin Mountains. Recent sources have...
Geopark in 2019. The park is located in the northern foothills of the QilianMountains, in the counties of Linze and Sunan, which are under the administration...
Central Asia. It is a string of oases along the northern edges of the QilianMountains and Altyn-Tagh, with the high and desolate Tibetan Plateau further...
Shule, and Tulai Nanshans. The easternmost range is the QilianMountains. The line of mountains continues east of the plateau as the Qinling, which separates...
province. Part of Gansu's territory is located in the Gobi Desert. The Qilianmountains are located in the south of the Province. Gansu has a population of...
largely on meltwater runoffs from the Tianshan, Kunlun and the western QilianMountains. The lake measured 3,100 km2 (1,200 sq mi) in 1928, but has dried up...
monarchy established by the nomadic peoples related to the Xianbei in the QilianMountains and upper Yellow River valley, in modern Qinghai, China. After the...
basins and low mountains lying between the Gobi Altai range on the north, the Helan Mountains to the southeast, and the QilianMountains and northeastern...
animal species. The mountains of southwest China are also designated as a biodiversity hotspot. In Southeastern Asia, high mountain ranges form tongues...
2nd century BC to the 5th century AD. The Wusun originally lived between the QilianMountains and Dunhuang (Gansu) near the Yuezhi. Around 176 BC the Xiongnu raided...
Kingdom (870-1036) with capital near present Zhangye at the base of the QilianMountains in the valley of the Ruo Shui. In 1037, the Yugur came under Tangut...
western terminus of the Ming wall The Great Wall near Jiayu Pass, QilianMountains in behind Ming Great Wall remnant, near Yinchuan The Great Wall remnant...
originating from the unique Shandan stud farm, located in China's QilianMountains. This military stud has an ancient breeding tradition dating back to...
the sacred ancestral shrine of the Xianbei. In the northwest, the QilianMountains that run along Gansu and Qinghai provinces were referred to as the...
and Ming Tombs. QilianMountains National Park (祁连山国家公园) Gansu and Qinghai June 26, 2017 50,000 To protect endangered species in the QilianMountains....
they lived in the region between Dunhuang and Qilian. — Book of Han, 61 The area between the QilianMountains and Dunhuang lies in the western part of the...
the Great Wall near the fort Jiayu Pass Weeping willow in Jiayu Pass QilianMountains and the Great Wall The Brick Steps Camels, horses and the Great Wall...
travelled over 2,000 li without backup, all the way past Juyan Lake to QilianMountains, killing over 30,000 Xiongnu soldiers and capturing a dozen Xiongnu...
kilometres (390 mi) from its headwaters on the northern Gansu side of the QilianMountains north-northeast into the endorheic Ejin Basin in the Gobi Desert. The...
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