| | Relics Reveal Glory of Khitan Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | In the exhibition entitled "Khitan Kingdom," which is held from June 10 to October 10 at the National Museum of Chinese History in Beijing, archaeologists are displaying the most precious relics of the Liao Dynasty (916-1125) unearthed in Inner Mongolia since the New China was founded in 1949. |
 | | The Khitan army conquered, in the 10th century, the Bohai Kingdom (today's Northeast China), Northwest China's Gansu Province and the Gaoli Kingdom (northern part of the Korean Peninsula), according to the "History of Liao" published in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). |
 | | As their kingdom spread over the "grassland silk road," which connects the Orient with Europe, they adopted an unusually open attitude to cultures and political systems of other ethnic groups. |
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