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Top 10 Chinese Silk Road Cities
For over 1,500 years, China's Silk Road cities were the most cosmopolitan places on Earth — crossroads of camel caravans, Buddhist monks, Arab traders, and Zoroastrian merchants. These ten historic cities still carry the extraordinary legacy of that age of global trade.
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