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    The Golden Chersonese or Golden Khersonese (Ancient Greek: Χρυσῆ Χερσόνησος, Chrysḗ Chersónēsos; Latin: Chersonesus Aurea), meaning the Golden Peninsula...
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  • or Golden Chersonese, the ancient name for the Malay Peninsula, described by Ptolemy circa 150 AD. Chersonesus Cimbrica or Cimbrian Chersonese, the...
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  • Ptolemy's Trans-Gangetic India or India beyond the Ganges, and the Golden Chersonese of the Greek and Roman geographers and sailors. The Periplus of the...
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    followed in developing an enormous phantom peninsula east of the Golden Chersonese (Malay Peninsula). The idea to call the globe "apple" may be related...
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    rampart". Ptolemy's Geographia named a geographical region of the Golden Chersonese as Maleu-kolon, a term thought to derive from Sanskrit malayakolam...
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    the Golden Chersonese instead of the earlier "Golden Island", which derived from Indian accounts of the mines on Sumatra. Beyond the Golden Chersonese, the...
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    ISBN 9780806113289. Bird, Isabella (1883). The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither. Bird, Isabella. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither. A Celebration of...
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  • Golden Island may refer to: An early name for the Golden Chersonese, the Malay peninsula Golden Island Shopping Centre, a shopping center in Ireland An...
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    Peninsula. The Malay Peninsula was shown on Ptolemy's map as the Golden Chersonese. Trade relations with China and India were established in the 1st...
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  • the eastern shore of the Great Gulf (Gulf of Thailand) east of the Golden Chersonese (Malay Peninsula), replacing the "unknown lands" which Ptolemy and...
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    East Malaysia, the Bornean portion of Malaysia Geography of Malaysia Golden Chersonese Malaya (disambiguation) Malayan dollar Malay: Semenanjung Malaysia;...
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    being visited by a Greek sailor named Alexander and lying beyond the Golden Chersonese (i.e. Malay Peninsula). Roman coins from the reigns of Tiberius to...
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    rex caspar habitavit (here lived King Caspar) is inscribed over the Golden Chersonese (Malay Peninsula) on the mappemonde of Andreas Walsperger made in...
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    shoreline. The expanse formed between it and the Malay Peninsula (the "Golden Chersonese"), he called the Great Gulf. Ptolemy's Geography was translated into...
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    Ocean. He explained that a port city called Kattigara lay beyond the Golden Chersonese (i.e. the Malay Peninsula) and was visited by a Greek sailor named...
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    being visited by a Greek sailor named Alexander and lying beyond the Golden Chersonese (i.e., Malay Peninsula). Roman coins from the reigns of Tiberius to...
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    Asian Massif Zomia Sub-regions Golden Chersonese Golden Triangle Greater Mekong Subregion Wheatley, Paul (1961). The Golden Khersonese: Studies in the Historical...
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    India within the Ganges 11th Map of Asia India beyond the Ganges, the Golden Chersonese, the Magnus Sinus, and the Sinae 12th Map of Asia Taprobana The original...
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    Geographia that used the name Malayu Kulon for the west coast of Golden Chersonese, and the 7th-century Yijing's account of Malayu. At some point, the...
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    astronomer Ptolemy (90–168) identified a place called Sabana at the tip of Golden Chersonese (believed to be the Malay Peninsula) in the second and third century...
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    the Nanyang region, is a boom in Mandarin Chinese language classes. Golden Chersonese, another gold-related name for the region from the ancient Greeks...
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    trading system between the Western and Eastern worlds through the Golden Chersonese (Malay Peninsula) route in the 1st century. The Sungai Batu site was...
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    correctly associated with Suvarnadvipa. Maleu-kolon – a location in the Golden Chersonese, from Ptolemy's work, Geographia. Mo-lo-yu – mentioned by Yijing,...
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    his Geography (c. AD 150), Ptolemy described the location of the Golden Chersonese, now known as the Malay Peninsula, and beyond this a trading port...
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    Greek geographer, astronomer, and astrologer who had written about Golden Chersonese, which indicates trade with the Indian Sub-Continent and China has...
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    similar to Rosa xanthina. It is a probable parent of the hybrids 'Golden Chersonese' and 'Helen Knight'. "Rosa ecae Aitch". Plants of the World Online...
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    Sinus (i.e. Gulf of Thailand and South China Sea) located east of the Golden Chersonese (i.e. Malay Peninsula). In the 1st-century CE Periplus of the Erythraean...
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    situated near modern Hanoi. Ptolemy wrote that Cattigara lay beyond the Golden Chersonese (the Malay Peninsula) and was visited by a Greek sailor named Alexander...
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    proving bad for the Malays, Chinese and British. In her book "The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither" (Published 1892 G.P. Putnam's Sons) Victorian...
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    100 – 166 AD: Romano-Chinese relations begin. Ptolemy writes of the Golden Chersonese (i.e. Malay Peninsula) and the trade port of Kattigara, now identified...
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