Tangut

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Tangut is a Kingdome within Cathay part of Great Tartary.

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Sources from old books:

1615. The estates, empires, & principallities of the world by Pierre d'Avity.

There growes much rhubarbe in the realme of Tangut, the which is transported throughout the world.

1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Tangut, Tangutum, a Kingdom in the Asian Tartary, towards China and the East-Indies. The Capital City of it, is Tangu.