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The Western Xia or the Xi Xia, officially the Kingdom of the Great Xia of the White and Lofty or Great Xia, also known as the Tangut Empire, was a Tangut-led imperial dynasty of China that existed fro
Xixia stone inscriptions
Western Xia painting on silk depicting the Daoist deity Emperor Xuanwu, discovered in the Hongfo Pagoda in 1990
Painting of a warrior from a late Western Xia tomb in Gansu
Western Xia explosive caltrop
Tangut language
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Tangut is an extinct Sino‑Tibetan language, now argued to belong within the Horpa subgroup of West Gyalrongic.
Western Xia
…The Western Xia or the Xi Xia (Chinese: 西夏; pinyin: Xī Xià; Wade–Giles: Hsi1 Hsia4), officially the Kingdom of the Great Xia of the White and Lofty (Tangut: 𗴂𗹭𘜶𗴲𗂧) or Great Xia (大夏; Dà Xià; Ta4 Hsia4), also known as the Tangut Empire, was a Tangut-led imperial dynasty of China that existed from 1038 to…
Buddhist scripture written in Tangut
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