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Meanings of khitans in English
Nomadic people originally from Mongolia and Manchuria.
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Examples for "kitan"
Examples for "kitan"
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.
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
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 khitans in English
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.