Luoyang was one of the capitals of China. It was sacked in 190, in 311 and in 535.[1] The Sogdians at Luoyang were more than three thousand kilometres and eight months of caravan travel away from Samarkand.[2]
The fall of 311 has a Sogdian witness. Nanai-vandak wrote from Gansu. He reports that, so it was said, the last emperor had fled Luoyang because of the famine. The palace and the city had been burnt, and “Srg [Luoyang] is no more”.[3] He had sent a caravan to the city. It found that the Indians and the Sogdians there had all died of starvation.[3] The letter names the destroyers xwn, the Huns. They were the armies of the Xiongnu state of Han, whose ruler Liu Cong took Luoyang in 311.
References
- ^ de la Vaissière 2005a, p. 45
- ^ de la Vaissière 2005a, p. 11
- ^ a b Sogdian Ancient Letters
Sources
Literature
- Étienne de la Vaissière, Sogdian Traders: A History (2005)
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Cite this article
Yavuz, Emre-E. “Luoyang.” Turkic Atlas, revised 7 November 2026. https://turkicatlas.org/places/luoyang/
Last revised: 7 November 2026
