Crasso, più che essere un generale mediocre, non era un generale. La teoria è questa: in seguito alla sconfitta di Carre una parte dell'esercito sconfitto si sarebbe spinta sino in Cina.
Ovviamente, per motivi ideologici, io ci credo ciecamente.
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Studies claiming that Liqian has Roman ancestry have greatly excited the impoverished county in which it is situated. The village is now overlooked by a pillared portico, in the hope of attracting tourists. A statue at the entrance of the nearby county town, Yongchang, shows a Roman legionary standing next to a Confucian scholar and a Muslim woman, as a symbol of racial harmony.
Even entrepreneurs have caught on: in "Imperial City Entertainment Street" there is a Caesar Karaoke bar.
The town's link with Rome was first suggested by a professor of Chinese history at Oxford in the 1950s. Homer Dubs pulled together stories from the official histories, which said that Liqian was founded by soldiers captured in a war between the Chinese and the Huns in 36BC, and the legend of the missing army of Marcus Crassus, a Roman general.
Roman descendants found in China?, Richard Spencer, The Telegraph, 7 febbraio 2007
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