Xia (Hsia in Wade–Giles) may refer to:
Chinese history
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Xia dynasty
The Xia dynasty () is the first dynasty in traditional Chinese historiography. According to tradition, the Xia dynasty was established by the legendary Yu the Great, after Shun, the last of the Five Emperors, gave the throne to him. In tradi ...
(c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC), the first orthodox dynasty in Chinese history
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Xia (Sixteen Kingdoms)
Xia (), known in historiography as Hu Xia (胡夏), Northern Xia (北夏), Helian Xia (赫連夏) or the Great Xia (大夏), was a dynastic state of Xiongnu origin established by Helian Bobo during the Sixteen Kingdoms period in northern China ...
(407–431), a Xiongnu-led dynasty
* Xia (617–621), a state founded by
Dou Jiande near the end of the Sui dynasty
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Western Xia
The Western Xia or the Xi Xia (), officially the Great Xia (), also known as the Tangut Empire, and known as ''Mi-nyak''Stein (1972), pp. 70–71. to the Tanguts and Tibetans, was a Tangut-led Buddhist imperial dynasty of China tha ...
(1038–1227), a Tangut-led dynasty
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Eastern Xia
The Eastern Xia (), also known as Dongxia, Dongzhen (東真)Warfare in Chinese History, by H. J. Van Derven, p239 or Dazhen (大真), was a short-lived kingdom established in Manchuria (today's Northeast China and Outer Manchuria) by the Jurchen ...
(1215–1233), a Jurchen-led dynasty
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Ming Xia (1362–1371), a short-lived dynasty that existed during the late Yuan dynasty period
Other uses
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Huaxia
''Huaxia'' (華夏, ) is a historical concept representing the Chinese nation, and came from the self-awareness of a common cultural ancestry by the various confederations of pre-Qin ethnic ancestors of Han people.
Etymology
The earliest ...
or Xia, an ancient ethnic group later known as the Han Chinese
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Xia (surname)
Xia is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Hsia in Wade–Giles, and Ha in Cantonese. Xia is the 154th surname in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 20 ...
, a Chinese surname
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Xia (philosophy), a Chinese philosophy similar (but not identical) to the chivalrous code of European knights
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Xia County, Shanxi, China
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Xiafs, a file system developed for the Linux operating system together with the Ext2 file system
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Xia class submarine, a Chinese ballistic missile submarine
* XIA, the ICAO Code for
Irving Oil
Irving Oil Ltd. is a Canadian gasoline, oil, and natural gas producing and exporting company. Considered part of the Irving Group of Companies, it was founded by entrepreneur K.C. Irving, Kenneth "K.C." Irving and is privately owned by his son, A ...
, Canada
* XIA (
Junsu), a Korean pop artist also known as Xiah and Junsu
* Xia, the former stage name of Korean pop artist Jang Jin Young, formerly of
RaNiA Rania may refer to:
Places
* Rania, Haryana, a City in Sirsa District, Haryana state of India.
* Ranya, a district in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan
* Rania block, a community development block, in Jharkhand, India
** Rania, Khunti, a v ...
* Xia, a place in the fictional
Bionicle
Bionicle was a line of Lego construction toys, marketed primarily towards 8-to-16-year-olds. The line originally launched in 2001 as a subsidiary of Lego's Technic series. Over the following decade, it became one of Lego's biggest-selling pro ...
universe
* Xia, a hero or knight-errant in Chinese fiction, see ''
wuxia
( ), which literally means "martial heroes", is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. Although is traditionally a form of historical fiction, its popularity has caused it to be adapted f ...
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See also
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Sia (disambiguation)
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