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Beate Dignas & Engelbert Winter - Kaveh Farrokh

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ANAREI<br />

( HU-CHIEH)<br />

S h a n<br />

Aksu<br />

(wen-su)<br />

Khotah<br />

Niya<br />

Keriya<br />

Ganges<br />

D I A<br />

CHU)<br />

S a y a n<br />

Karashar (Yen-chi)<br />

Lou-tan<br />

Ying-pan<br />

Lop Nor<br />

28 Economy and trade 199<br />

90 °E 120 °E<br />

Altai<br />

D ' z u n g a r i a<br />

Urumchi<br />

Turfari<br />

Shan<br />

Kitai<br />

T I B E T<br />

Khangai<br />

L. Balkal<br />

MONGOLIA<br />

Lhasa<br />

Hami<br />

Bay of<br />

Bengal<br />

An-hsi<br />

Tun-huang<br />

90 °E<br />

Koko Nor<br />

Urga<br />

Edsin Gol<br />

Chu-yen<br />

Ya b l o n o y<br />

Noin-Ula<br />

H S I U N G<br />

Lan-chou<br />

T'IEN<br />

- N U<br />

Map 13: (cont.)<br />

Yangtze<br />

MANCHURIA<br />

Yellow River<br />

Ch'ang-an<br />

N A N Y U E H<br />

C H ' A O H S I E N<br />

Peking<br />

Lo-yang<br />

C H I N A<br />

YEH LANG<br />

0<br />

Canton<br />

Lo-lang<br />

YUEH<br />

TUNG HAI<br />

MIN YUEH<br />

Sites where Han Chinese<br />

silks and/or lacquers<br />

have been found<br />

Land over 2000 m<br />

500 km<br />

40°E<br />

30°N<br />

20°N<br />

0 500 miles<br />

By the fourth century Nisibis was thus a crucial centre of trade and also<br />

played a great strategic role. As the passage suggests, for the purpose of<br />

defending the Roman Eastern frontier the city served as an essential fortress.<br />

Ammianus Marcellinus speculates that had it not been for Nisibis – orientis<br />

firmissimum claustrum – at this point the Roman East would have been<br />

under Sasanian rule for some time. 132 Quite consistently, the same author<br />

132 Amm. xxv.8.14.

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