LOST REALMS
January 23rd 2008 16:18
LOST REALMS ...
What does that suggest to you?
Here's some lost realms few people apart form hisotry specialists may have heard of?
NAN CHAO
Centered in hte valley around Erhai Lake it later became the Kingdom of Da Li and then after it was overrun by the Mongolians the province of Yunnan.
From 737 - 902 and possibly earlier it dominated the trade routes and highland valleys of Yunnan and northern Burma and Thailand and briefly controlled the Sichuan basin for a century. It s conquest by the Mongols contirubted indirectly to the development of Vietnam Thailand Burma and other SE Asian realms.
CHRISTIAN NUBIA
Did you know there was a Christian realm in Nubia called "Alwa that lasted unitl the sixteenth century and further north was Al Maqurra both successor states to Meroe and older kingdoms? The Aswan dam drowned many sites and most surviving structures were converted for Islamic use.
CHARACENE SPASINOU or Charax.
Alexandria on the Tigris was once a major port before Basra and sited on a coastal lagoon that is now a hundred miles or more inland. Mentioned in several chronicles and history books Charax was a minor power and a trading port for more than half a millenium!
About all that remains are discoveries of coins and a mound that's never been properly excavated due to political unrest as it's now in a border region on the edge of Iran and Iraq.
CTESIPHON
Near Babylon and Baghdad is a giant arched vault that is nearly all that remains of the banquet hall of a palace built by the Seleucid and Sassanian kings.
So I've given you four topics to Google or Wiki!
Enjoy learning more! Or should I do it for you and share more details in future blogs?
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