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Lingwu - [ Syriac Not Available ]

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A frontier region of northwestern China, associated in premodern usage with the Ningxia area, near the Gansu corridor. It held strategic importance in the northwest as a military and administrative zone tied to Tangut and Tang frontier politics. In the context of Syriac Christianity, literary evidence suggests that monasteries of Jingjiao existed in Lingwu and nearby counties, showing that Christian institutions had spread into the northwestern borderlands and not only the metropolitan centers.3

Names

  • Lingwu1, 2
  • Lingzhou1, 2
  • 灵武市4
  • 灵武市4

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 38.0868781000° Long. 106.3267994000°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: 829. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 3 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: 1.2.4. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 entry: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q609421, entry: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q609421