Throana

Japanese: Throana
Throana

…The system of Dunhuang as a gateway to the Western Regions from China was already established during the Western Han period, and it continued to play that role thereafter, and the name of Dunhuang was also known to the Western world as a city on the Silk Road. The oldest record of Dunhuang by people other than the Han people is the 2nd century Alexandrian scholar Ptolemy's Geography, in which Throana, listed as a city in Serica in Chapter 16, is considered to be Dunhuang. Dunhuang is located at the westernmost end of the Hexi Corridor and far from the Central Plain, so when the central government weakened, it often became independent or semi-independent, and sometimes united with nearby oasis cities to form small states. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Throana" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…敦煌が中国より西域に通ずる門戸であるという体制は,このように前漢時代にすでに整い,以後その役割をつとめつづけ,西方の世界にもシルクロード上にある都市の名として敦煌の名が伝えられた。漢民族以外の人々による敦煌に関する記録として最も古いのは,2世紀のアレクサンドリアの学者プトレマイオスの《地理書》で,その第16章にセリカの都市として挙げたThroanaが敦煌のことであるとみなされている。 敦煌は,何といっても河西通廊の最西端にあり,中原から遠く離れているので,中央政府が弱体化すると,しばしば独立ないし半独立し,ときには近傍のオアシス都市と連合して小国家をつくった。…

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