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:For the present I've standardised the discretiva page a bit (better to have only one blue link, and if necessary one redlink, per line) and I took out "Sina (Ptolomaeus)", but, of course, if there is reason for it, it can be put back!
:I added a link to the discretiva page [[Sinae]]. <font face="Gill Sans">[[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew]]<font color="green">[[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby| Dalby]]</font></font> 11:09, 1 Iulii 2010 (UTC)
::The sources are the english wikipedia articles on Chang'an, Xi'an, and Xianyuang; the capital cities of the chinese empire; and Hofmann's articles on Sina, one of which calls Sina one of the cities in Xansia. I think Sinae is a transliteration of Ptolemy into Latin; but Hofmann's article on Sina offers Sina as the '''latin''' name of any one of those cities which lay in Xansia near the end/beginning of the silk road , which would have to be Chang'an/Xi'an (the Han capital) or Xianyuang the Qin capital. Contrary to Ptolemy it does not lie on the coast, there was no costal chinese metropolis at the time he claims except Canton, but rather the capital and end of the silk road was in the interior, near the center of present day china at Xi'an. Ptolemy was wrong in many aspects of his map of china. In fact, Sina/Xi'an lay in the region named Serica (north interior) which was thought to be different than Sinae (coast), and also Cathaya. But After commissioning many trips to China late in the 1700's they finally figured that all three were the same place, and it is reflected in the evolution of the maps as shown in the many Wikipedia articles and other books, a subject certainly worthy of discussion on our Sinae (regio) page. The upshot I think is that there is possibly some other metropolis that Ptolemy was referring to by Sinae, perhaps Sina, but who knows, since his map of china was so screwed up. --[[Specialis:Conlationes/173.70.154.122|173.70.154.122]] 14:36, 1 Iulii 2010 (UTC)
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