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Quanterness

Megalithic tomb, usually classified as a form of passage grave, on the island of Orkney, north Scotland, excavated in the 1970s. Like other megalithic tombs, it had been used for collective burial, but the number of bodies found here was unusually high: remains of 157 individuals were found in th...

Qishan

[Ch’i-shan], A district in Shaanxi province, China, just west of Fufeng. The Zhou people are said to have settled at Qishan several generations before they overthrew the Shang dynasty, and Qishan remained a major centre after the founding of the Zhou dynasty. A large palace complex discovered in ...

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Qinwangzhai

[Ch’in-wang-chai]. SeeDAHE.

Qinwangzhai

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Qin Shi Huangdi

[Ch’in Shih Huang-ti]. Ruler of the Qin state of China (from 246 bc) and first emperor (r. 221-210 bc) of the Qin dynasty. Qin Shi Huangdi completed the unification of China begun by earlier rulers of Qin; he standardized the legal code, weights and measures, currency, and script form throughout ...

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Qin Shi Huangdi

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Qinglian’Gang

[Ch’ing-lien-kang]. Neolithic site in Huaian Xian, northern Jiangsu province, China. The name ‘Qinglian’gang culture’ is often used to designate all or part of the well-defined Neolithic sequence north of the Yangzi River in Jiangsu and Shandong (some authors use ‘Huating culture’ or ‘Dawenkou cu...

Qinglian’Gang

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Qing

[Ch’ing]. Name of the Manchu dynasty that ruled China from 1644 to 1911.

Qin

[Ch’in]. Name of an Eastern Zhou state centred in the Wei River valley of Shaanxi province, China, and of the dynasty (221-206 bc) founded after the Qin state had conquered and absorbed the various states ruling the rest of China. The first emperor of the dynasty, Qin Shi Huangdi, established his...

Qijia

[Ch’i-chia]. Successor to the Yangshao cultures of Gansu, China, named after the site of Qijiaping in the Tao River valley. Qijia is the Longshan culture of Gansu and is related to Kexingzhuang II in Shaanxi and Hougang II in Henan (see Longshan, sense 3). Qijia pottery is rarely painted and ofte...

Qibla

See mosque.

Qibla

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Qatna

An impressive fortified city east of Homs in Syria. Excavation has found evidence of 3rd-millennium bc occupation, but the fortifications — consisting of a free-standing plaster-faced glacis (bank) — belong to the Middle Bronze Age in the early 2nd millennium bc and were probably constructed by t...

EnglishPlace Names, Ancient Cities

Qatabanean

One of the kingdoms of southern Arabia in the 1st millennium bc, contemporary with the Minaeans, Sabaeans and Hadramis. Its capital city was Timna‘.

Qatabanean

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Qasr Al-Hayr East

Islamic site in Syria standing in semi-desert. It consists of two fortified buildings and a bath-house, in an enclosure with conduits which tapped a spring 25 km away and brought rainwater from a nearby wadi. The Small Enclosure is roughly square, 66 metres across, with towers and a monumental ga...

Qarnâwu

See Minaean.

Qarnâwu

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Qal’At Sharqat

Modern name of Assur, capital of Assyria in northern Mesopotamia.

Qal’At Sharqat

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Qal’A Of The Banu Hammad

The Qal’a, in northeast Algeria, was founded in 1007 as a new capital by Hammad, the grandson of Ziri, builder of the first Sanhaja centre at Ashir. Excavations began in 1908 and have continued intermittently ever since. The major monuments include the Manar and Lake Palaces and the mosque. The m...

Qal’A Of The Banu Hammad

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Qairawan

An important caravan city in Tunisia on the east-west route between Egypt and the Maghreb. It has four major 9th-century structures: the Great Mosque, the Mosque of Three Doors and two massive cisterns. The Great Mosque bears the name of Uqba b. Nafi, the conqueror of North Africa, who built the ...

EnglishAncient Cities, Place Names

Qadesh

See Kadesh.

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