Richthofen coins the term Seidenstrasse
In the first volume of China, published in Berlin, the geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen names the Han-period routes between China and the West Seidenstrasse. The network had operated for roughly sixteen centuries without a name, and had been effectively dormant as a principal corridor for four hundred years before it acquired one.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Ferdinand von Richthofen · person · not located
- The term 'Silk Road' · concept · not located
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China: Ergebnisse eigener Reisen und darauf gegründeter Studien, Band I
Ferdinand von Richthofen coins the term Seidenstrasse for the Han-period routes between China and the West. This is the origin of the name; no ancient or medieval source, in any language, calls the network a silk road.
Dietrich Reimer, Berlin · 1877 · Verified
Volume 1, 1877
Recorded on Ferdinand von Richthofen
- Richthofen coins the term Seidenstrasse
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