Значения термина qidan на английском

My brother has been to Khitai and the islands of Cipangu.

Once ambassadors from places like Nova Roma and Baghdad and Memphis and Khitai came to us.

Then, finally, these strange island realms gave way to familiar territory: for now Asia was in sight, the shores of Khitai.

Were there other empires, perhaps, in the middle of that Western Sea-empiresmightier than Khitai and Cipangu and India put together?

On the eastern side of that vast ocean were Mexico and Peru; on its western side, Khitai and Cipangu, with India farther on.

But defeats at the hands of the Khitans and Tibetans imbittered his life and diminished his authority.

She vanquished the Tibetans and a new Tartar race known as the Khitans, who appeared on the northern borders of Shensi.

That general, together with his colleague Tu Chung-wei was surrounded by a vastly superior army of Khitans in the year 945 A.D.

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.

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.