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Western Regions

Western Regions proper noun: a geographic region of Central Asia, west of ancient China's Jade Gate along the Silk Road; sometimes including parts of the Indian subcontinent.

Proper noun

Western Regions

  1. (historical) A geographic region of Central Asia, west of ancient China's Jade Gate along the Silk Road; sometimes including parts of the Indian subcontinent.
    • From the historical point of view, trade and expansion in this period began as a reaction to the barbarian threat of the Hsiung-nu on the northern and northwestern frontiers, and ended not only in the inclusion of various barbarian groups into the empire, such as the Southern Hsiung-nu, the...1967, Ying-shih Yü, “Introduction: The Problem and Its Origins”, in Trade and Expansion in Han China: A Study in the Structure of Sino-Barbarian Economic Relations, University of California Press...

Origin of Western Regions

Calque of Chinese 西域 (Xīyù).

Questions about Western Regions

What does Western Regions mean?
Western Regions means a geographic region of Central Asia, west of ancient China's Jade Gate along the Silk Road; sometimes including parts of the Indian subcontinent.
What part of speech is Western Regions?
Western Regions is a proper noun.

Words near Western Regions in the dictionary

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  10. Western Roman Empire
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