The name Daxia appears in Chinese from the 3rd century BC to designate a mythical kingdom to the West, possibly a consequence of the first contacts with the expansion of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and then is used by the explorer Zhang Qian in 126 BC to designate Bactria.

:" Daxia is situated over 2, 000 li ( 1, 000 kilometers ) southwest of Dayuan ( Ferghana ), south of the Gui ( Oxus ) river.

:" Southeast of Daxia is the kingdom of Shendu ( India )... Shendu, they told me, lies several thousand li southeast of Daxia ( Bactria ).

The name Daxia appears in Chinese from the 3rd century BCE to designate a mythical kingdom to the West, possibly a consequence of the first contacts with the expansion of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and then is used by the explorer Zhang Qian in 126 BCE to designate Bactria.

To the south of them there is Daxia ( Bactrians ), to the west, Anxis ( Parthians ); to the north Kangju ( Sogdians ).” ( Shiji, 123. 5b )

After Darius Dax becomes the Supremium meteorite at the end of The Story of the Year, he is sent to a place similar to the Supremacy, called Daxia.

Daxia, Ta-Hsia, or Ta-Hia ( Chinese: 大夏 ; Pinyin: Dàxià ) is the name given in antiquity by the Han Chinese to the territory of Bactria.

The name Daxia appears in Chinese from the 3rd century BCE to designate a mythical kingdom to the West, possibly a consequence of the first contacts with the expansion of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and then is used by the explorer Zhang Qian in 126 BCE to designate Bactria.

It is located in the valley of the Daxia River ( a right tributary of the Huanghe ), 150 km ( by road ) southwest of the provincial capital Lanzhou.

The main urban area of Linxia City ( i. e., the city proper ) is located roughly in the center of the city's administrative boundaries, on the left ( northwestern ) bank of the Daxia River.

The central business district of Linxia City, corresponding to the former walled city of Hezhou, is located a couple of kilometers to the north of the Daxia River, and contains the city's more upscale shopping and entertainment precincts, as well as the prefectural government.

The area between the former south gate ( Nanguan ) and to the Daxia River is primarily commercial, with vibrant markets taking up much of the street space on market days.

The South Bus Station, situated near the Daxia River bridge over which S309 enters the city from the southeast, is served by for frequent ( hourly or half-hourly service ) buses to Lanzhou, Xiahe, Hezuo, Kangle, Hezheng.

Ming Yuzhen ( 旻玉珍, then 明玉珍 ) ( 1331-summer 1366 ) was a peasant who established the rebel Empire of Daxia ( 大夏 " Great Xia ") during the late Yuan Dynasty in China.

Their trainer had taken each of their masks and hidden it somewhere on Daxia.

Zhang encountered Dayuan ( Fergana ), Kangju ( Sogdiana ), and Daxia ( Bactria, formerly the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom ); he also gathered information on Shendu ( Indus River valley of North India ) and Anxi ( the Parthian Empire ).

This included details of his travels to the Greek-Hellenized kingdoms of Fergana ( Dayuan ) and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom ( Daxia ), as well as reports of Anxi ( Persian Empire of Parthia ), Tiaozhi ( Mesopotamia ), Shendu ( India ), and the Wusun Central Asian nomads.

The name, which literally means, " Xia River " refers to the Daxia River which runs alongside the town.

Unlike many Chinese county-level cities, which include a county-size expanse of the countryside, the boundaries of Linxia City include only a fairly small area ( 88. 6 km < sup > 2 </ sup >), stretched along the Daxia River, which in this region flows towards the northeast.

According to former USSR scholar Zuev, there was a queen among the large Yuezhi confederation who added to her possessions the lands of the Tochar ( Pinyin: Daxia ) on the headwaters of the Huanghe c. 3rd century BCE.

By the time Zhang Qian visited Daxia, there was no longer a major king, and the Bactrian were suzerains to the nomadic Yuezhi, who were settled to the north of their territory beyond the Oxus ( Amu Darya ).

:" The Yuezhi originally lived in the area between the Qilian or Heavenly Mountains ( Tian Shan ) and Dunhuang, but after they were defeated by the Xiongnu they moved far away to the west, beyond Dayuan ( Ferghana ), where they attacked the people of Daxia ( Bactria ) and set up the court of their king on the northern bank of the Gui ( Oxus ) river.

By the time Zhang Qian visited Daxia, there was no longer a major king, and the Bactrian were suzerains to the nomadic Yuezhi, who were settled to the north of their territory beyond the Oxus ( Amu Darya ).

By the time Zhang Qian visited Daxia, there were no longer a major king, and the Bactrian were suzerains to the nomadic Yuezhi, who were settled to the north of their territory beyond the Oxus.

As reported in 2000, the 7 largest hydro power plants ( Longyangxia, Lijiaxia, Liujiaxia, Yanguoxia, Bapanxia, Daxia and Qinglongxia ) had the total installed capacity of 5, 618 MW.

Zhang Qian visited directly the kingdom of Dayuan in Ferghana, the territories of the Yuezhi in Transoxiana, the Bactrian country of Daxia with it remnants of Greco-Bactrian rule, and Kangju ( 康居 ).

:" The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Daxia ) and Parthia ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hanshu, Former Han History ).

They are bordered to the south by Daxia ( Bactria ), on the west by Anxi, and on the north by Kangju ( 康居 ).

Zhang Qian identifies " Anxi " as an advanced urban civilization, like Dayuan ( Ferghana ) and Daxia ( Bactria ).

:" The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Daxia ) and Parthia ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hanshu, Former Han History ).

:"" When I was in Bactria ( Daxia )", Zhang Qian reported, " I saw bamboo canes from Qiong and cloth made in the province of Shu ( territories of southwestern China ).

:" The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Daxia ) and Parthia ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hanshu, Former Han History ).

* Daxia, the name given in antiquity by the Chinese to the territory of Bactria

Zhang Qian equated Parthia's level of advancement to the cultures of Dayuan in Ferghana and Daxia in Bactria.

Daxia was an affluent country with rich markets, trading in an incredible variety of objects, coming from as far as Southern China.

The Shiji relates that " the emperor learned of the Dayuan, Daxia, Anxi, and the others, all great states rich in unusual products whose people cultivated the land and made their living in much the same way as the Chinese.

After the Great Yuezhi moved west and attacked and conquered Daxia, the entire country came under their sway.

The people cultivate the land and live much like the people of Daxia.

Daxia was an affluent country with rich markets, trading in an incredible variety of objects, coming as far as Southern China.

* Daxia, a fictional location in the storyline associated with the LEGO Bionicle toys.

Every version of Dax before him lives in Daxia, including Darius Duck, Daxor, Daxian, Doomsdax, Mad Nazi Scientist Dax, and " Grim " Serial-Killer Transvestite 80's Dax.

Ideograms for Ta-Hsia or Daxia.

Daxia was an affluent country with rich markets, trading in an incredible variety of objects, coming as far as Southern China.

:" Thus the emperor learned of Dayuan, Daxia, Anxi, and the others, all states rich in unusual products whose people cultivated the land and made their living in much the same way as the Chinese.