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Premiere Watch: The Goryeo-Khitan War

Btw, some of you might know this but I just found out the following from Encyclopaedia Britannica:
“ Cathay, name by which North China was known in medieval Europe. The word is derived from Khitay (or Khitan), the name of a seminomadic people who left southeastern Mongolia in the 10th century CE to conquer part of Manchuria and northern China, which they held for about 200 years’’.

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