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Khān Bālīq - [ Syriac Not Available ]

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The northern capital region of China, political center in later dynasties, with surrounding districts containing important religious and archaeological sites. It grew into one of the chief imperial centers of North China and drew institutions, monuments, and communities from across the empire, eventually becoming modern day Beijing. In the context of Syriac Christianity, the ruined Cross Temple at Fangshan south of Beijing and its carved stone bases with crosses, lotuses, flowers, and Syriac inscriptions provide rare material evidence for Christian artistic and devotional presence near the later imperial capital region.7, 8

Names

  • Khān Bālīq1
  • Beijing1, 2, 3
  • Dadu1
  • Khanbaliq2, 4
  • 元大都9
  • 元大都9
  • 大都9
  • 大都9
  • 汗八里9

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates (preferred):
    • Lat. 39.9171754000° Long. 116.3907051000°2
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al., Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 95–96, 210, 360, 429. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 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. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 3 William L. Potter and David A. Michelson, Index of Maps, in The Syriac World, ed. Daniel King (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), p: 825. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 4 William L. Potter and David A. Michelson, Index of Maps, in The Syriac World, ed. Daniel King (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), p: 829. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 5 p: 625-652, p: 625-652.
  • 6 p: 583-624, p: 583-624.
  • 7 Zhou Liangxiao, Chinese Nestorianism in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, 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), 107–207, p: 197-207. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Ruji Niu, Nestorian Inscriptions from China (13th–14th Centuries), 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), 209–42, p: 229-230. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 9 entry: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q101186473, entry: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q101186473