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Miran is an ancient oasis town located on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the China. It lies on the famous trade route known as the Silk Road where the Lop Nur desert meets the Altun Shan mountains. Two thousand years ago a river flowed down from the mountain and Miran had a sophisticated irrigation system. Now the area is a sparsely inhabited dusty spot with poor roads and minimal transportation. Archaeological excavations since the early 20th century have uncovered an extensive Buddhist monastic site that existed between the 2nd to 5th centuries AD, as well as Miran fort which was a Tibetan settlement during the 8th and 9th centuries AD.
Miran may refer to:
Places- Miran, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Miran, Kabul, Afghanistan
- Miran, Wardak, Afghanistan
- Miran, Iran (disambiguation)
- Miran (Xinjiang)
- Miran (tribe), a Kurdish tribe
- Miran, nickname of Mir Sadiq Ali Khan, son of Mir Jafar
- Miran Bux
- Mahmoud Miran
- Miran Shah
- Richard Garcia Miranda
The Miran tribe is one of the Kurdish tribes who was a part of the Chokhsor confederation. The tribe eventually came to dominate the others of the tribal confederation for a period of time after the demise of Cizre Botan.