Via serica[1][2] fuit copia viarum vel itinerum mercatoriorum ab Europa Meridiana per Orientem Proximum et Asiam Mediam (Xinjiang) usque ad Sinas pertinens, qua merces pretiosae, imprimis serica, transvehebantur. Nomen a Seidenstraße nomine Theodisco deducitur, quo Ferdinandus de Richthofen(en), geographus Germanicus, hanc viam anno 1877 appellavit.[3]
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