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Meanings of kitan in anglès
Nomadic people originally from Mongolia and Manchuria.
Related terms
Sinònims
Examples for "khitai"
Examples for "khitai"
1
My brother has been to Khitai and the islands of Cipangu.
2
Once ambassadors from places like Nova Roma and Baghdad and Memphis and Khitai came to us.
3
Then, finally, these strange island realms gave way to familiar territory: for now Asia was in sight, the shores of Khitai.
4
Were there other empires, perhaps, in the middle of that Western Sea-empiresmightier than Khitai and Cipangu and India put together?
5
On the eastern side of that vast ocean were Mexico and Peru; on its western side, Khitai and Cipangu, with India farther on.
1
But defeats at the hands of the Khitans and Tibetans imbittered his life and diminished his authority.
2
She vanquished the Tibetans and a new Tartar race known as the Khitans, who appeared on the northern borders of Shensi.
3
That general, together with his colleague Tu Chung-wei was surrounded by a vastly superior army of Khitans in the year 945 A.D.
4
The peace was soon broken by either the Kins or the Khitans, and Hoeitsong consented to address Akouta as the Great Emperor of the Kins.
1
Most of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books,-suchas the Yaso-Kidan, Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho ,Kokon-Chomonshu ,Tama-Sudare ,andHyaku-Monogatari.
Usage of kitan in anglès
1
His rise started from a victory over the Kitan in 744.
2
The Kitan were crippled, and it became an easy matter to attack them.
3
This state must not be regarded as a purely Kitan state.
4
In 947 the Kitan ruler proclaimed himself emperor of the Kitan and the Chinese.
5
This brought many Tungus tribes, including the Jurchen (Juchên), under Kitan dominance.
6
Both processes increased the interest of the Kitan ruling class in the maintenance of peace.
7
Kitan Petkovski is one of those with plans for next year who'll be in Edinburgh.
8
The second emperor of the Sung was actually heavily defeated several times by the Kitan.
9
Now the Juchên wanted to enjoy this wealth as the Kitan had done before them.
10
In 927 the Kitan finally destroyed Po-hai.
11
In 1125 the Kitan empire was destroyed.
12
Then, in Ching-t'ang, and he was set on the Chinese throne as a feudatory of the Kitan.
13
This was not exactly an heroic policy: the north of China remained in the hands of the Kitan.
14
Then the Kitan took a hand.
15
He spent some time establishing relations with the court and then went back to resume operations against the Kitan.
16
They hoped to stave off the Mongols in the same way as they had met the Kitan and the Juchên.
Frequent collocations
Kitan through the time