Tibetans and Khotan capture Bohuan
The work records Tibetan forces, together with Khotan, attacking and capturing Bohuan city in the Kucha territory.
What this does and does not establish
Revision 1502953, line 288. The named Kucha city establishes a Central Asian location independently of the attackers' origins. The preceding eighteen-prefecture loss is retained only because it shares the contiguous dated sentence; no locations are invented for those prefectures.
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- Region
- Central Asia
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- Tang Gaozong, Xianheng 1, fourth month; no day specified
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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Dating notes from the research record
Read zztj201.wikitext lines 276–300 and both calendar files, lines 31–65. Julian 669-12-31 = Tang Gaozong Zongzhang 2, 12/3; Julian 670-12-31 = Tang Gaozong Xianheng 1, 11/14. The explicitly summer fourth-month action lies between these anchors in Julian 670, after the third-month era change. The later Tibetan campaign is a separate narrative.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Zizhi tongjian
Sima Guang and collaborators
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
夏，四月，吐蕃陷西域十八州，又與于闐襲龜茲撥換城，陷之。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
In summer, in the fourth month, the Tibetans captured eighteen prefectures in the Western Regions; they also, together with Khotan, attacked Bohuan city of Kucha and captured it.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Zizhi tongjian, juan 201; Wikisource contributors https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=1502953, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); project translation, adapted and share alike where applicable.
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