Daxia, Ta-Hsia, or Ta-Hia (Chinese: 大夏; pinyin: Dàxià; literally: 'Great Xia') was apparently the name given in antiquity by the Han Chinese to Tukhara...
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Look up 大夏 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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Bactria (section Daxia, Tukhara and Tokharistan)
include βαχλο (Romanized: Bakhlo). بلخ (Romanized: Balx), Chinese 大夏 (pinyin: Dàxià), Latin Bactriana. The region was mentioned in ancient Sanskrit texts as...
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Zhang Qian (section Daxia (大夏, Bactria))
relations. The Shiji relates that "the Emperor learned of the Dayuan (大宛), Daxia (大夏), Anxi (安息), and the others, all great states rich in unusual products...
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The Daxia River (Chinese: 大夏河; pinyin: Dàxià hé) or Sangchu (Tibetan: བསང་ཆུ, Wylie: bsang chu) is a tributary of the Yellow River in southern Gansu province...
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living in walled cities and having "customs identical to those of the Daxia" or Greco-Bactrians, a Hellenistic kingdom that was ruling Bactria at that...
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multi-ethnic Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture. It is located in the valley of the Daxia River (a right tributary of the Yellow River), 150 km (93 mi) (by road)...
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the Yuan dynasty), Ming Yuzhen, a peasant rebel leader, established the Daxia Kingdom (大夏) at Chongqing for a short time. In 1621 (during the Ming dynasty)...
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the Yellow River listed from its source to its mouth include: White River Daxia River Tao River Huang Shui Datong River Zhuanglang River Zuli River Qingshui...
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civilizations. Zhang encountered Dayuan (Fergana), Kangju (Sogdiana), and Daxia (Bactria, formerly the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom); he also gathered information...
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