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Seidenstraße

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German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Seide (silk) +‎ Straße (street, road). Coined by Ferdinand von Richthofen.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈzaɪ̯dn̩ˌʃtʁaːsə/
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Proper noun

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die Seidenstraße f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Seidenstraße)

  1. (history) Silk Road

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Ferdinand von Richthofen (1877) “Über die zentralasiatischen Seidenstrassen bis zum 2. Jh. n. Chr. [On the Central Asian Silk Roads until the 2nd century A.D.]”, in Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin[1] (in German), volume 4, pages 96–122

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