Seidenstraße

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Seide (silk) + Straße (street, road). Coined by Ferdinand von Richthofen.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzaɪ̯dn̩ˌʃtʁaːsə/
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Proper noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. (history) Silk Road

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References

  1. Ferdinand von Richthofen (1877), “Über die zentralasiatischen Seidenstrassen bis zum 2. Jh. n. Chr. [On the Central Asian Silk Roads until the 2nd century A.D.]”, in Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (in German), volume 4, pages 96–122

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