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Xi'an - ܟܘܡܕܐܢ

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"Ancient Chinese city in Shanxi Province. Located at the eastern terminus of the fabled Silk Route, Xi’an served as the capital of unified China periodically from the 11th cent. BC through the Tang Dynasty (AD 618–907). By 635 the E.-Syr. missionary known as Aluoben had received permission from the Chinese emperor Taizong (627–49) to promote the Ch. of E. in his kingdom, using the capital as a base."1

Names

  • ܟܘܡܕܐܢ
  • Xi'an2
  • Chang’an4, 5
  • Hsi-an fu2
  • Kumdan
  • Sian-fu2, 3
  • Xi’an4, 6
  • 西安9
  • 長安9
  • 長安9
  • 长安9
  • 长安9

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates (preferred):
    • Lat. 34.2658353000° Long. 108.9427042000°4

Attestation

Attestation of name ܟܘܡܕܐܢ on Xi'an Nestorian Stele. ܟܘܡܕܐܢ
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Works Cited

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  • 1 J. W. Childers, Xi’an, in The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 428-429. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al., Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 94–95 (with fig. 34), 195, 210, 428–429 (with fig. 127). Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Sian-fu