Quanzhou - ܙܐܝܛܘܢ
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A major maritime hub of the Yuan dynasty, known to Arab merchants as Zayton, located on the southeastern coast of Fujian province. It flourished as one of the world’s busiest ports in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, facilitating expansive Indian Ocean trade. Numerous fourteenth-century Syriac Christian tomb inscriptions discovered in Quanzhou attest to a substantial and enduring Church of the East merchant community under Mongol rule.6, 7, 8
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- Lat. 24.9120889000° Long. 118.5810614000°2
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- 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al., Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 95, 210.
- 2 Ian Mladjov, Diachronic Maps of Syriac Cultures and Their Geographic Contexts, in The Syriac World, ed. Daniel King and David A. Michelson (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), xxvii–xxxiii,
map 1–14, map: 11.
- 3 William L. Potter and David A. Michelson, Index of Maps, in The Syriac World, ed. Daniel King (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), p: 831.
- 4 p: 625-652, p: 625-652.
- 5 p: 583-624, p: 583-624.
- 6 Bizhen Xie, The History of Quanzhou Nestorianism, in Jingjiao: The Church of the East in China and Central Asia, ed. Roman Malek and Peter L. Hofrichter, Collectanea Serica (Sankt Augustin: Institut
Monumenta Serica, 2006), 257–75, p: 267-270.
- 7 Samuel N. C. Lieu, Nestorian Remains from Zaitun (Quanzhou), South China, in Jingjiao: The Church of the East in China and Central Asia, ed. Roman Malek and Peter L. Hofrichter, Collectanea Serica (Sankt Augustin: Institut
Monumenta Serica, 2006), 277–91, p: 285.
- 8 Matteo Nicolini-Zani, The Luminous Way to the East: Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China, trans. William Skudlarek (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), p: 1.1, 1.3.
- 9 entry: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q68695, entry: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q68695