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Thinae (
"Sinae"
In Salazar, Christine F. (ed.). ''Brill's New Pauly''. Brill Publishers. Retrieved 16 May 2022. * Ritter, Carl (1833). ''Die Erdkunde im Verhältniß zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen, oder allgemeine vergleichende Geographie, als sichere Grundlage des Studiums und Unterrichts in physicalischen und historischen Wissenschaften''
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Thinae (Greek
Greek may refer to:
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*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
: Θῖναι, or Σῖναι), or Thina ( Θῖνα), Arr. ''Per. M. Erythr.'' p. 36. was a capital city of the Sinae
The names of China include the many contemporary and historical appellations given in various languages for the East Asian country known as ''Zhōngguó'' (/, "middle country") in its national language, Standard Mandarin. China, the name in En ...
(modern China), who carried on there a large commerce in silk and woollen stuffs.Dyer 1857, p. 1174.
History
There appears to have been an ancient tradition that the city was surrounded with brazen walls; butPtolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (; grc-gre, Πτολεμαῖος, ; la, Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were of importance ...
remarks that these did not exist there, nor anything else worthy of remark. The ancient writers differ very considerably as to its situation. According to the most probable accounts it was either Nankin, or rather perhaps Thsin, Tin, or Tein, in the province of Schensi, where, according to the accounts of the Chinese themselves, the first kingdom of Sin, or China, was founded.
See also
*Sino-Roman relations
Sino-Roman relations comprised the (mostly indirect) contacts and flows of trade goods, of information, and of occasional travellers between the Roman Empire and the Han Empire of China, as well as between the later Eastern Roman Empire and va ...
* Names of China
* Silk Road
* Tenduc
* Luoyang
Luoyang is a city located in the confluence area of Luo River and Yellow River in the west of Henan province. Governed as a prefecture-level city, it borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the east, Pingdingshan to the southeast, Nanyang ...
References
Sources
* Dyer, Thomas H. (1857). "Thinae". In Smith, William (ed.). '' Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography''. Vol. 2: ''Iabadius–Zymethus''. London: Walton and Maberly. p. 1174. * Karttunen, Klaus (2006)"Sinae"
In Salazar, Christine F. (ed.). ''Brill's New Pauly''. Brill Publishers. Retrieved 16 May 2022. * Ritter, Carl (1833). ''Die Erdkunde im Verhältniß zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen, oder allgemeine vergleichende Geographie, als sichere Grundlage des Studiums und Unterrichts in physicalischen und historischen Wissenschaften''
Band 2: ''Der Nord-Osten und der Süden von Hoch-Asien''
Berlin: G. Reimer. p. 199. oston: De Gruyter, 2018 * Schoff, Wilfred H. (1912). ''The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century''. London, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 48. {{Authority control Greco-Roman ethnography Ancient cities