Slovak name phonetically China is closely related to that used in many other languages of the worl

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Name of the country, we know at least from hearing since childhood, our ears sounds absolutely obviously and naturally. Average or suspend the fact that the name originated and what the story is behind it. In most cases, thereby preparing the opportunity to meet interesting chapter in the history of our civilization, learn about the tumultuous events of the previous form of sovereign states and thus often actually understand the presence of objects or facts that in our present life already take for granted.
Slovak name phonetically China is closely related to that used in many other languages of the world. For example, in English it is China / ʧaɪnə /, German China / 'Ci on / in French Chine / ʃin / in Polish CHINA /' xinit / China and Spanish / ʧi: on /. The actual origin of this denomination is not to this day clearly elucidated.
Currently dominated by two main theories about the origin of naming China. The first one is based on the name of the Qin Dynasty (sometimes also referred to as Chin), who first united the country. Although the government Qin Dynasty lasted only a short time (221-206 BC) and is basically for government tyranny and despotism, to its unquestionable merits include unification of the font and the introduction of the title Emperor of supreme ruler of the country. Consequently a buyer wandering the Silk Road to the west could indicate exactly that name - Qin what we could to English phonetically rewritten as / act /. Anyway, had to go through during this term journey Silk Road Hastings and thus many small changes before they ever got into Europe, which may explain the differences in the use of the name in different languages.
The second theory is rather cecil gee focuses on one of the first business articles, which are to Europe from China started to import and gradually cecil gee became in the eyes of Europeans to the country and characteristic - Chinese porcelain, also called abbreviated china. According to this theory is that naming china porcelain essentially Phonetic place called Changnan / Cannan /, which is the original name of the city in which the porcelain began to produce, cecil gee today Jingde. During the reign of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) people combine the advantages of gray-green celadon ceramics of Southern Yue kilns and white porcelain kilns from northern cecil gee Xing, along with high quality soil of the mountain Gaoling in Changnan produced a new kind of white-green porcelain. The porcelain was an exceptionally smooth and radiant colors, so you can quickly earned cecil gee the nickname artificial jade. Gradually he became famous not only in domestic but also foreign markets. In large quantities were exported to Europe, as Europeans before 18 p. Make yourself china unaware. During the reign of the Song Dynasty emperor Jingde Zhenzong so admired Changnan of porcelain that was built officially cave houses the porcelain of all kinds, and every piece of porcelain that leaves the factory had to bear on the bottom of the seal Made during the reign of Jingde. Since then, the city began to call Changnan Jingde, as we know it to this day. In Europe, the porcelain Changnan rare and expensive commodity. Owning the products made from them was a matter of prestige and indispensable feature of social status. Over time, therefore, Europeans have forgotten the true origin of the names Changnan and expanded cecil gee its meaning from china to name names throughout its country cecil gee of origin.
Certainly you have in relation to China met with the name Empire Wednesday. Despite the fact that our ears may sound a bit exaggerated, or even poetically, this term almost exact translation of the current name of the country from Chinese - Zhongguo cecil gee (which means zhong guo center and is the country's empire).
In ancient China, the word meant guo city or state. Word Zhongguo, which is now China, mean central city and the central state. cecil gee According to historical records had word zhongguo by five meanings: first - the capital, the second - the state under the rule of Emperor third - Central Plains, the fourth - fifth mountain areas and meaning - a region inhabited by peoples of Han Xia. Since the early Han Dynasty (206 BC -220 AD) started, people often speak of an established nation state as the Han Zhongguo. However, other nations called his Zhongguo States cecil gee and none of them was willing to recognize the existence of another country with that name. Virtually was therefore Zhongguo in the past rather than the actual adjective noun. At the same time none of the ruling dynasties in history has not adopted this name for his and all of them have their own name. After the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, during the Chinese bourgeois democratic revolution led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in the year. 1911 began naming Zhongguo cecil gee used as a shortened form of the name Republic of China in 1949, Zhongguo became a truncated form of the name of the People's Republic. At present, China is the only country named Zhongguo. Text & am