Thinae (

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: Θῖναι, or Σῖναι), or Thina ( Θῖνα), Arr. ''Per. M. Erythr.'' p. 36. was a capital city of the

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(modern

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), who carried on there a large commerce in silk and woollen stuffs.Dyer 1857, p. 1174.

History

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remarks that these did not exist there, nor anything else worthy of remark. The ancient writers vary considerably as to its situation. According to the most probable accounts it was either

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, or rather perhaps Thsin, Tin, or Tein, in the province of

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, where, according to the accounts of the Chinese themselves, the first kingdom of Sin, or China, was founded.

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''. Vol. 2: ''Iabadius–Zymethus''. London: Walton and Maberly. p. 1174. * Karttunen, Klaus (2006)
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Berlin: G. Reimer. p. 199. oston: De Gruyter, 2018 * Schoff, Wilfred H. (1912). ''The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century''. London, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 48. {{Authority control Classical ethnography Ancient cities

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