怛罗斯之战
Traditional form:
怛羅斯之戰
Pinyin (reading):
Dáluósīzhī Zhàn
Definitions:
- Battle of Talas (751), military engagement in the valley of the Talas River 塔拉斯河 ( Tǎlāsī Hé), in which Arab forces defeated Tang armies, marking the end of Tang westward expansion
Characters:
- 怛 - grieving; worried
- 罗 - gauze, net; to collect, to display
- 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 战 - war, fighting, battle
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