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An oasis city of the Hexi Corridor, at the edge of the Gobi and the western approaches to China proper, in modern Gansu. It became a major entrepôt, manuscript center, and religious crossroads where traffic from Central Asia entered the Chinese world. In the context of Syriac Christianity, Dunhuang appears to have been one of the main northwestern Christian centers in the Tang period, and its commercial links also connected it to Christian officials and monks active in nearby Ganzhou.5

Names

  • Dunhuang1, 2
  • 敦煌6
  • 敦煌市6
  • 敦煌市6
  • 敦煌縣6
  • 敦煌縣6
  • 沙州6
  • 燉煌6

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 40.1380718000° Long. 94.6674728000°1
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Works Cited

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  • 1 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
  • 2 William L. Potter and David A. Michelson, Index of Maps, in The Syriac World, ed. Daniel King (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), p: 827. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 3 Hidemi Takahashi, Syriac Christianity in China, in The Syriac World, ed. Daniel King, Routledge Worlds (London: Routledge, 2019), 625–52, p: 625-652. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Mark Dickens, Syriac Christianity in Central Asia, in The Syriac World, ed. Daniel King, Routledge Worlds (London: Routledge, 2019), 583–624, p: 583-624. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 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), chapter: 1-2. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 entry: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q319114, entry: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q319114