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PRELIMINARY ESSAY. XCVii The capital of China at this time, according to the monk, was a city called Taiuna or ThajAye, in which Pauthier discovers a corruption of the name Chao or Chiao fit, by which Singanfu was called under the Sung dynasty. In any case it was probably the same as that intended by the Tdjah which Edrisi and Abulfeda speak of as the capital of China. The form is more suggestive of Thaiyuan fu in the province of Shensi, the Taianfu of M. Polo, which had been for a time the capital of the Thang in the eighth century.'
viously been referred to by Golius, but it was not known whence he had derived it, till it was rediscovered by M. Reinaud in a work in the Bibl. Impériale. 1 See Pauthier's Polo, p. 353. It must have been difficult to say what was the capital of China in the tenth century, when it was divided into five monarchies. That of the Sung, who acquired a predominance in 960, was first at Changan or Singanfu, and afterwards at Kai! ngIU. Nineveh and 13abyiioa, p. 433. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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