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ID: 8698253
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8698253
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tuyuhun (former nation/state/empire)  Tuyuhun (former nation/state/empire)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 00 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 096 00 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 96.0000  decimal degrees

Note: Kingdom of primarily Xianbei peoples on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Controlling the Qinghai portion of the Silk Road, Tuyuhun was a critical center of trade and diplomacy after the fall of the Western Qin and the Xia. Subsequently incorporated by the Tibetan empire.

Names:
Tuyuhun (preferred,C,V,display)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of China (nation)  ........  China (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Tuyuhun (former nation/state/empire)  ............  Tuyuhun (former nation/state/empire) (P)

Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (preferred, C)  ............  329-663
kingdom (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Tuyuhun..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Pan, Locating Advantages (2013)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Lung, Interpreters in Early Imperial China (2011) 32
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 02 November 2016
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Lung, Interpreters in Early Imperial China (2011) 31-34
..........  Pan, Locating Advantages (2013)

 

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