Kitan

English

Proper noun

Kitan

Alternative form of Khitan
- 1990, Herbert Franke, "The Forest Peoples of Manchuria: Kitans and Jurchens" in The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia, Vol. I, p. 400:
  ...the name of the Kitan people has had quite a history by itself. During the 13th century China, or rather Northern China, became known in the Near East and in Europe as Cathay or Catai, a name derived from the ethnic term Kitan.

Noun

Kitan (plural Kitans or Kitan)

Alternative form of Khitan

Anagrams

Ankit, Atkin, takin, takin'

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