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Serica is a region - a state, or group of smaller states - inhabited by the Seres, or Tocharians, the eastern-most representatives of the Aryan ethnic cluster. Serica is located in what is known as Xinjiang in our world today, more specifically the Tarim basin.

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  • Serica is a region - a state, or group of smaller states - inhabited by the Seres, or Tocharians, the eastern-most representatives of the Aryan ethnic cluster. Serica is located in what is known as Xinjiang in our world today, more specifically the Tarim basin.
  • Serica, the land of the Seres, was the name by which the Greco-Romans referred to a country in Central Asia. Ancient Meditteranean knowledge of this nation was indistinct and distorted by fables and myths. Ptolemy and Pliny the Elder present more precise descriptions. Serica was described by Ptolemy as bordering "Scythia beyond the Imaum mountains (Tian Shan)" on the West, "Terra Incognita" to the North-East, the "Sinae" or Chinese to the East and "India" to the South. This would correspond with modern Xinjiang province in North-Western China.
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  • Serica is a region - a state, or group of smaller states - inhabited by the Seres, or Tocharians, the eastern-most representatives of the Aryan ethnic cluster. Serica is located in what is known as Xinjiang in our world today, more specifically the Tarim basin.
  • Serica, the land of the Seres, was the name by which the Greco-Romans referred to a country in Central Asia. Ancient Meditteranean knowledge of this nation was indistinct and distorted by fables and myths. Ptolemy and Pliny the Elder present more precise descriptions. Serica was described by Ptolemy as bordering "Scythia beyond the Imaum mountains (Tian Shan)" on the West, "Terra Incognita" to the North-East, the "Sinae" or Chinese to the East and "India" to the South. This would correspond with modern Xinjiang province in North-Western China.
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