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Sino-Roman relations comprised the (primarily indirect) contacts and flows of trade goods, information, and occasional travelers between the Roman Empire and the Han dynasty, as well as between the later Eastern Roman Empire and various successive Chinese dynasties that followed. These empires inched progressively closer to each other in the ...
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Han–Xiongnu Wars. The Han–Xiongnu Wars, [5] also known as the Sino–Xiongnu War, [6] was a series of military conflicts fought over two centuries (from 133 BC to 89 AD) between the Chinese Han Empire and the nomadic Xiongnu confederation, although extended conflicts can be traced back as early as 200 BC and ahead as late as 188 AD.
The Battle of Zhizhi (郅支之戰) was fought in 36 BC [3][4] between the Han dynasty and the Xiongnu chieftain Zhizhi Chanyu. Zhizhi was defeated and killed. [5] The battle was probably fought near Talas on the Talas River on the borderline of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, which makes it one of the westernmost points reached by a Chinese army.
Daqin (Chinese: 大秦; pinyin: Dàqín; Wade–Giles: Ta 4-ch'in 2; alternative transliterations include Tachin, Tai-Ch'in) is the ancient Chinese name for the Roman Empire or, depending on context, the Near East, especially Syria. [1]
Gan Ying. Gan Ying (Chinese: 甘英; pinyin: Gān Yīng; fl. 97 CE) was a Chinese diplomat, explorer, and military official who was sent on a mission to the Roman Empire to find out more about it in 97 CE by the Chinese military general Ban Chao. [1]
Political map of the Eastern Hemisphere in AD 200. Comparative studies of the Roman and Han empires is a historical comparative research involving the roughly contemporaneous Roman Empire and the Han dynasty of early imperial China. At their peaks, both states controlled up to a half of the world population [1] and produced political and ...
The Holy See made efforts in 2007 to create formal ties with the PRC. [11] Theodore McCarrick had been an envoy as part of such efforts. [12] High-ranking bishops in the Roman Catholic Church implied that such a diplomatic move was possible, [13] predicated on the PRC granting more freedom of religion [14] and interfering less in the hierarchy of the church in mainland China.