Navekat

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Navekat

Ruins of Navekat
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Alternative name	Nevkat
Location	Chüy Region, Kyrgyzstan
Coordinates	42°54′56.2″N 75°0′29.9″E / 42.915611°N 75.008306°E / 42.915611; 75.008306Coordinates: 42°54′56.2″N 75°0′29.9″E / 42.915611°N 75.008306°E / 42.915611; 75.008306
Type	Settlement
History
Founded	5-6th century
Abandoned	12th century
Site notes
Condition	In ruins

Navekat or Nevkat ^[1] was an ancient Silk Road city that flourished between the 6th and 12th centuries. It lies near the modern village of Krasnaya Rechka, in the Chüy Valley, present-day Kyrgyzstan, about 30 kilometers east of Bishkek. It was one of the most important trading centres of the region.^[2] Navekat was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014^[3] as a part of the site "Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor".

Archaeological site[]

Navekat had two walls: the first around Shahristan, the traditional administrative center of this type of city; the second wall was more than 18 kilometers long with public buildings, markets, gardens and even farms inside. There was a citadel in the North-eastern part of the city, which was built on a massive earthen platform. The volume of this platform was about 13 million cubic meters; probably the largest man-made mound in the world.

During archaeological excavations the artifacts uncovered included a golden burial mask, an 8 meter-long reclining Buddha statue in the one of the two Buddhist temples.^[4] There were other artifacts showing the presence of Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Nestorians, Manicheans.

See also[]

• Suyab
• Balasagun
• Burana tower

References[]