The Beiting Protectorate was a Tang dynasty protectorate created in 702 to control the Beiting region north of Gaochang. Wu Zetian set up the Beiting Protectorate in Ting Prefecture and granted it governorship over Yi Prefecture and Xi Prefecture . The Beiting Protectorate ended in 790 when Tingzhou was conquered by the Tibetan Empire. In 2014 the Beiting city ruins were designated a part of the Silk Road UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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