Τζίνιτζα

Ancient Greek

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Τζίνιτζα • (Tzínitza)

  1. (rare, culture) alternative form of Τζίνιστα (Tzínista): the southern Chinese; their land, China
    • 1878, Thomas Rawson Birks, Commentary on the Book of Isaiah‎[1] (in English), citing a quotation given by Franz Delitzsch, originally by F. W. Newmann, page 247:
      The name Θῖναι, Strabo, Σῖναι, Ptol., Τζίνιτζα, Kosmas, did not obtain currency first from the founder of the dynasty Tsin; but, long before this, Tsin was the name of a feudal kingdom in Shensi, one of the western provinces of the Sinese land, and Feitsa, the first feudal King of Tsin, began to reign as early as b.c. 897.
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