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Xiutu (Chinese: 休屠王; pinyin:
Xiūtú Wáng, also
rendered as Hsiu-tu, lit. "The king who puts an end to m****acres") was a king in the Hexi
corridor of the...
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courtesy name
Wengshu (翁叔),
formally Marquess Jing of Du (秺敬侯), was a
Xiongnu Xiutu prince and a
general of the
Western Han dynasty. He was
referred to as a...
- Lake was retreating, and the
Xiongnu were able to
establish the city of
Xiutu along the Hongs**** River,
leading to a
flourishing of
nomadic culture within...
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Euthydemid ruler of the Greco-Bactrian
Kingdom and
perhaps related with king
Xiutu of Gansu.
Portrait of
young Euthydemus II.
Silver coin of King Euthydemus...
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Xiongnu Chanyu, the
Xiutu King and the
Hunye King
planned to
surrender to the Han
forces of
General Huo Qubing. However, the
Xiutu King
suddenly changed...
- They
trace their ancestry to King
Xiutu of the Xiongnu. In 121 BC,
Xiongnu King
Hunxie killed King
Xiutu when
Xiutu refused to
surrender to the Chinese...
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killed the
Prince of
Xiutu and
ordered Xiutu's forces to also surrender. When the two
tribes went to meet the Han forces,
Xiutu's forces rioted. Seeing...
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armies of the
Xiongnu prince of
Xiutu (休屠, in modern-day Gansu), he "captured a
golden (or gilded) man used by the King of
Xiutu to
worship Heaven". The statues...
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complete Xiongnu control,
mainly occupied by the two
tribes of
Hunye and
Xiutu. In 138 BCE,
Emperor Wu sent
Zhang Qian as the amb****ador to the Western...
- Left (East).
Autumn -
Yizhixie Chanyu plans on
executing the
Hunye and
Xiutu kings for
their failures against Huo Qubing, but
learning of this, the v****al...
