Silk Road

English Etymology en de Seidenstraße. Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Silk Road.wav Southern England Proper noun Silk Road 1 en historical An extensive interconnected network of trade routes across Asia, North and Northeast Africa, and Europe, historically used by silk traders. en 1958 w:Amaury de Riencourt The Moonlight Civilizations The Soul of China https://archive.org/details/soulofchina00deririch/ Revised 1965 w:Harper & Row 58-5698 39557575 109-110 https://archive.org/details/soulofchina00deririch/page/109/ China had received with more or less good grace the flood of Buddhist missionaries but had long since sent out her own missionaries— priests, not of a transcendental religion of salvation, but of a secular way of life, of a worldly and refined civilization. Expansion in Turkestan and Central Asia took place simultaneously with expansion in Southeast Asia. As fast as the famed Silk Road started winding itself through thousands of miles of Eurasian deserts, swamps, jungles and mountains toward Persia and the Mediterranean world, increasingly numerous fleets of junks began to ply the warm waters of the tropical south. en 19 June 1978 18 June 1978 Li Yun-fei 'Silk Road' Replaced by New Highway Daily Report: People's Republic of China I 118 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578684&seq=701 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking NCNA 0892-0141 1113433 People's Republic of China: A 18 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578684&seq=724 The ancient "silk road" is now replaced by the newly-built Karakoram Highway linking China and Pakistan. on en 2016 Bill Porter The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan https://archive.org/details/silkroadtakingbu0000port/ Counterpoint (publisher) Counterpoint 978-1-61902-710-7 939390574 172 https://archive.org/details/silkroadtakingbu0000port/page/172/ https://books.google.com/books?id=WN8REAAAQBAJ&pg=PT141 But halfway back, he learned that there had been a change in dynasties and decided he would be better off staying where he was. And so Lu Kuang set up his own Silk Road kingdom at Wuwei in the middle of the Kansu Corridor. en 21 March 2019 After mass detentions, China razes Muslim communities to build a loyal city https://web.archive.org/web/20220821121049/https://www.efe.com/efe/english/world/after-mass-detentions-china-razes-muslim-communities-to-build-a-loyal-city/50000262-3930938 21 August 2022 w:EFE In this old Silk Road city in western China, a state security campaign involving the detention of vast numbers of people has moved to its next stage: demolishing their neighborhoods and purging their culture. May 11, 2020 Ligaya Mishan Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palette https://web.archive.org/web/20200511131108/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/t-magazine/xian-china-food.html 11 May 2020 Six hours are enough to devour the over 900 miles from Shanghai to Xi’an, the landlocked capital of Shaanxi Province in China’s central northwest, standing on the bones of the imperial city of Chang’an. In the seventh and eighth centuries A.D., this was the center of not only China but the globe — the eastern origin of the trade routes we call the Silk Road and the nexus of a cross-cultural traffic in ideas, technology, art and food that altered the course of history as decisively as the Columbian Exchange eight centuries later. A million people lived within Chang’an’s pounded-earth walls, including travelers and traders from Central, Southeast, South and Northeast Asia and followers of Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism. Derived terms en Silk Road disease Translations routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa Altai: Southern Altai: alt јибек јол Arabic: ar طَرِيق اَلْحَرِير m Armenian: hy Մետաքսի ճանապարհ Azerbaijani: az İpək Yolu Bulgarian: bg Път на копри́ната m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 絲綢之路 Sīchóu zhī Lù Danish: da silkevej c Dutch: nl zijderoute m Esperanto: eo Silka Vojo Estonian: et Siiditee Finnish: fi silkkitie French: fr route de la soie f Georgian: ka აბრეშუმის დიდი გზა, ka აბრეშუმის გზა German: de Seidenstraße f Hebrew: he דרך המשי f dérek haméshi Hindi: hi रेशम मार्ग m Hungarian: hu selyemút Irish: ga Bóthar an tSíoda m Italian: it via della seta f Japanese: ja シルクロード Shiruku Rōdo, ja 絹の道 きぬのみち, Kinu no Michi Kazakh: kk Жібек жолы Korean: ko ^비단길, ko ^실크 로드 Kyrgyz: ky жибек жолу Mongolian: mn Торгоны зам Nogai: nog йибек йолы Persian: fa راه ابریشم râh-e abrišam, fa جاده ابریشم jâdde-ye abrišam Polish: pl jedwabny szlak m, pl Jedwabny Szlak m Portuguese: pt Rota da Seda f Russian: ru Вели́кий шёлковый путь m, ru шёлковый путь m Spanish: es Ruta de la Seda f Swedish: sv sidenvägen c Tamil: ta பட்டுப் பாதை Thai: th เส้นทางสายไหม sên-taang-sǎai-mǎi Tibetan: bo དར་གོས་འགྲུལ་ལམ Turkish: tr İpek Yolu Ukrainian: uk Вели́кий шовко́вий шлях m Urdu: ur شاہراہ ریشم (śāhrāh-e-reśam) Uyghur: ug يىپەك يولى Vietnamese: vi Con đường tơ lụa Welsh: cy Ffordd y Sidan f Anagrams en adiklors kilorads en History of China Trading Places in China