Silk Road
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Etymology edit
Calque of German Seidenstraße.
Proper noun edit
- (historical) An extensive interconnected network of trade routes across Asia, North and Northeast Africa, and Europe, historically used by silk traders.
- 2016, Bill Porter, The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan[1], Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172:
- 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.
- 2019 March 21, “After mass detentions, China razes Muslim communities to build a loyal city”, in EFE[2], archived from the original on 21 August 2022[3]:
- 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.
- 2020 May 11, Ligaya Mishan, “Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palette”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2020[5]:
- 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.
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Translations edit
routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa
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