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Guangzhou - [ Syriac Not Available ]

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A major maritime port of southern China, terminus of the Maritime Silk Road, gateway to Persia and Arabia, in modern Guangdong province. It served as a cosmopolitan commercial center where foreign merchant communities flourished, though violent upheavals such as the massacres of 758 and 869 devastated Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and Zoroastrian residents, with records reporting 120,000 foreign victims under Huang Chao. Guangzhou was home to significant East Syriac merchant communities whose presence and destruction demonstrate both the scale of Christian integration into maritime trade and the vulnerability of foreign religions in late Tang instability.4

Names

  • Guangzhou1, 2
  • 五羊城5
  • 五羊城5
  • 广州5
  • 广州5
  • 广州市5
  • 廣州5
  • 廣州5
  • 番禺5
  • 穗5
  • 穗城5
  • 穗城5
  • 花城5
  • 花城5

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 23.1166670000° Long. 113.2500000000°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 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: 1.1. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 entry: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16572, entry: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16572