cathay
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Name — China, in particular medieval northern China as reached overland by the Silk Road route to Xi'an or Beijing, not recognised at the time as linked to southern China, accessed instead by sea via Guangzhou.
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Etymology
From Latin Cathaya, variant of Cataya, from Old Turkic 𐰶𐰃𐱃𐰪 (Qïtań), and ultimately from Khitan 𘱿𘲫 (*qid ún); the Khitan people who conquered northern China as the Liao dynasty in the 10th century and ruled the central Asian Qara Khitai Khanate in the 12th, just prior to the overland European missions to China occasi...
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