Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Serica> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 44 of
44
with 100 items per page.
- Serica abstract "The Seres (Greek: Σῆρες, Latin: Sērēs) were inhabitants of the land Serica, named by the ancient Greek and Roman. It meant "of silk," or people of the "land where silk comes from," and is thought to derive from the Chinese word for silk, si (Traditional Chinese: 絲; Simplified Chinese: 丝; pinyin: sī). It is itself at the origin of the Latin for "silk", sērĭcă.[citation needed]The Seres and their country were named after the central product which sustained their industry, the "Ser" or Silkworm. Some classicists argued that it was extremely improbable that a nation would be named after an insect, and the 19th Century orientalist Christian Lassen identified them in the sacred books of the Hindus as the "Caka, Tukhara, and Kanka". Mention of the Seres people, as the manufacturers and distributors of silk, is earlier than the country Serica. This made some historians believe that the Greco-Romans named the Chinese Sinae when approached from the Pacific Ocean but Seres when reached from the Asiatic steppes. Others contend that the Seres were a loose confederacy of Tocharian people, who traded with the Indians, the Chinese and, through the Parthians and later the Sassanid Persians, the Romans. The Seres were universally depicted as prudent, just and compassionate people, whose genteel natures were addicted to comfort (not luxury), peace and harmony. In commerce they were shrewd, yet still more assiduous and diligent. For the Romans, a long and mutually remunerative commerce with the Seres was endangered when the middlemen, the Parthians, were usurped by the Sassanids.A summary of Classical sources on the Seres (essentially Pliny and Ptolemy) gives the following account:The region of the Seres is a vast and populous country, touching on the east the Ocean and the limits of the habitable world, and extending west nearly to Imaus and the confines of Bactria. The people are civilised men, of mild, just, and frugal temper, eschewing collisions with their neighbours, and even shy of close intercourse, but not averse to dispose of their own products, of which raw silk is the staple, but which include also silk stuffs, furs, and iron of remarkable quality.Serica was described by Ptolemy as bordering "Scythia beyond the Imaum mountains (Tian Shan)" on the West, "Terra Incognita" to the North-East, the "Sinae" or Chinese to the East and "India" to the South. This would correspond with modern Xinjiang province in North-Western China.".
- Serica thumbnail Ptolemy_Asia_detail.jpg?width=300.
- Serica wikiPageExternalLink 0055.html.ja.
- Serica wikiPageExternalLink 0162.html.ja.
- Serica wikiPageExternalLink 0169.html.ja.
- Serica wikiPageExternalLink m307.htm.
- Serica wikiPageExternalLink ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0239&query=head%3D%23119.
- Serica wikiPageExternalLink ptext?lookup=Plin.+Nat.+6.20.
- Serica wikiPageExternalLink ptext?lookup=Plin.+Nat.+6.24.
- Serica wikiPageExternalLink ptext?lookup=Strab.+11.11.1.
- Serica wikiPageID "7852748".
- Serica wikiPageRevisionID "601994662".
- Serica hasPhotoCollection Serica.
- Serica subject Category:Ancient_peoples_of_China.
- Serica subject Category:Foreign_relations_of_Ancient_Rome.
- Serica subject Category:Historical_regions.
- Serica type HistoricalRegions.
- Serica type Location100027167.
- Serica type Object100002684.
- Serica type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Serica type Region108630039.
- Serica type YagoGeoEntity.
- Serica type YagoLegalActorGeo.
- Serica type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Serica comment "The Seres (Greek: Σῆρες, Latin: Sērēs) were inhabitants of the land Serica, named by the ancient Greek and Roman. It meant "of silk," or people of the "land where silk comes from," and is thought to derive from the Chinese word for silk, si (Traditional Chinese: 絲; Simplified Chinese: 丝; pinyin: sī). It is itself at the origin of the Latin for "silk", sērĭcă.[citation needed]The Seres and their country were named after the central product which sustained their industry, the "Ser" or Silkworm.".
- Serica label "Seres (historisch land)".
- Serica label "Seres".
- Serica label "Seres".
- Serica label "Seri".
- Serica label "Serica".
- Serica label "Sères".
- Serica label "赛里斯".
- Serica sameAs Seres.
- Serica sameAs Seres.
- Serica sameAs Sères.
- Serica sameAs Seri.
- Serica sameAs Seres_(historisch_land).
- Serica sameAs m.026g979.
- Serica sameAs Q210258.
- Serica sameAs Q210258.
- Serica sameAs Serica.
- Serica wasDerivedFrom Serica?oldid=601994662.
- Serica depiction Ptolemy_Asia_detail.jpg.
- Serica isPrimaryTopicOf Serica.