Sentence examples for Western Liao from inspiring English sources

Yelü Dashi, Wade-Giles romanization Yeh-lü Ta-shih, temple name (miaohao) (Xi Liao) Tezong, (born 1087, China died 1143, Central Asia), founder and first emperor (1124 43) of the Xi (Western) Liao dynasty (1124 1211) of Central Asia.

1087 China 1143 Central Asia Yelü Dashi, Wade-Giles romanization Yeh-lü Ta-shih, temple name (miaohao) (Xi Liao) Tezong (born 1087, China died 1143, Central Asia) founder and first emperor (1124 43) of the Xi (Western) Liao dynasty (1124 1211) of Central Asia.

Its mouth, near the port of Yingkou, is constantly silting up, and it is navigable for smaller craft as far upstream as the confluence of the Eastern and Western Liao rivers.

This included policies of raising militias to lessen the expense of upholding a million soldiers, putting government monopolies on saltpetre and sulphur production and distribution in 1076 (to ensure that gunpowder solutions would not fall into the hands of enemies), and aggressive military policy towards China's northern rivals of the Western Xia and Liao dynasties.

Western blotting was performed according to our published method (Liao et al., 2003).

The specificity of these two antibodies was verified by Western blots in previous studies (Persons et al, 1997; Liao et al, 2000b).

Their territory included the Liao's native land, and expanded westward to Shaanxi, Gasu, and the Western Xia border, and southward to the Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River to the border of the Southern Song.

From its inception under Taizu, the Song dynasty alternated between warfare and diplomacy with the ethnic Khitans of the Liao dynasty in the north-east and with the Tanguts of the Western Xia dynasty in the Northwest.

Under the Khitan (whose Liao dynasty ruled until 1125) and their successors, the Jin (Juchen), the city was the western capital; an attached Datong county was set up in 1048.

Despite the war with the Western Xia, the Song also settled land disputes with them by referring to prior agreements, as with the Liao.

During this period, non-Han "conquest dynasties" ruled the north: the Khitan Liao dynasty (9071125) and the succeeding Jurchen Jin dynasty (11151234) in the east and the Tangut Western Xia (10381227) in the west, all of which had built walls against the north.