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Cathay

/kæˈθeɪ/
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Catay
China, specifically medieval northern China as reached by the overland Silk Road to Xi'an or Beijing, not known at the time to be related to southern China as reached by the maritime routes to Guangzhou.
Columbus listened to many of these sea-stories, and heard many wonderful things about a very rich land away to the East that folks called Cathay. If you look in your geographies yo…
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