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    relations. The Shiji relates that "the Emperor learned of the Dayuan (宛), Daxia (), Anxi (安息), and the others, all great states rich in unusual products...
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    (Chinese: 西夏; pinyin: Xī Xià; Wade–Giles: Hsi1 Hsia4), officially the Great Xia (; Dà Xià; Ta4 Hsia4), also known as the Tangut Empire, and known as Mi-nyak...
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  • Look up in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Daxia or Ta-hsia may refer to: Daxia, the name given in antiquity by the Chinese to the territory of Bactria...
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    cognates include βαχλο (Romanized: Bakhlo). بلخ (Romanized: Balx), Chinese (pinyin: Dàxià), Latin Bactriana. The region was mentioned in ancient Sanskrit...
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    Daxia, Ta-Hsia, or Ta-Hia (Chinese: ; pinyin: Dàxià; literally: 'Great Xia') was apparently the name given in antiquity by the Han Chinese to Tukhara...
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  • (无定河/無定河) Kuye River (窟野河) Dahei River (黑河) Qingshui River (清水河) Zuli River (祖厉河/祖厲河) Tao River (洮河) Daxia River (河) Star River (湟水) White River (白河) Xiaoqing...
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    Xia (Chinese: ; pinyin: Xià), known in historiography as Hu Xia (胡), Northern Xia (北), Helian Xia (赫連) or the Great Xia (), was a dynastic state...
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    《汉书·西域传》:乌孙国,昆弥治赤谷城,去长安八千九百里。户十二万,口六十三万,胜兵十八万八千八百人。……故服匈奴,后盛大,取羁属,不肯往朝会。东与匈奴、西北与康居、西与宛、南与城郭诸国相接。本塞地也,月氏西破走塞王,塞王南越县度,月氏居其地。后乌孙昆莫击破月氏,月氏徙、西臣,而乌孙昆莫居之,故乌孙民有塞种、大月氏种云。...
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    commonly referred to as the "Great Xia" () in Chinese-language sources of the Tangut or as the "Xia State" (Chinese: 國) to the Song. In later historiography...
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  • Pingyang 平陽 c. 2333–2234 BC Shun Puban 蒲坂 c. 2233–2184 BC Xia dynasty Daxia Gun Song 崇 Yangcheng 陽城 Yu Yangzhai 陽翟 Yu, Qi, Taikang Chu 鉏 Hou Yi Qiongshi...
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