China - ܨܝܢ

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it remains uncertain when Christians first reached the main, historically Chinese-speaking (Han), part of China.1

Names

  • ܨܝܢ
  • China2, 5, 6, 7
  • ܨܺܝܢ3
  • الصين4
  • الصِين8

Place Type

region

Descriptions

129. China, Syriac Christianity in1
it remains uncertain when Christians first reached the main, historically Chinese-speaking (Han), part of China.1

Attestation

Attestation of name الصِين in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. الصِين8 8
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Works Cited

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  • 1 H. Takahashi129. China, Syriac Christianity inThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritagep: 94-96., p: 94-96.
  • 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 94–96 (with fig. 34), 99, 123, 203, 210, 261, 360–361, 382, 414, 417, 428 (with fig. 127).Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 26.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 15.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 4.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: China.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 7 David Wilmshurst, The ecclesiastical organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 582; Subsidia, tomus 104 (Leuven: Peeters, 2000), p: 1, 16, 17, 19, 342, 343, 344, 345-346, 347.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 8 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: III:500.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

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Thomas A. Carlson, “China — ܨܝܢ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2014. Entry published June 30, 2014. http://syriaca.org/place/472.

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  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by William L. Potter
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson
  • Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson

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