The Roman Saga - A Trailer English Six Volume Novel

The idea of this book is based on real historic events as well as a number of David Harris and H. Dubs’ studies, who found out that there was the city of Lijiang built in the I century BC in the province of Guangxi, which corresponds to the Chinese name of Rome. The same name is found in the list of cities dated 5 AD. The city was supposedly built by the Roman legionnaires, who came to China after the Crassus’ army defeat in 53 BC. Plutarch&biography of Crassus also says about prisoners-legionnaires, and Plutarch writes the Parthians sent them to the city of Margiana or Merv. The next place they arrived to from Merv were Xiongnu steppes, who lived on the territory of modern Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. There legionaries took part in the construction of Xiongnu capital on the Talas River, 15 km from the modern town of Jambul. In 36 BC this city was destroyed by the Chinese General Tan, and the Romans turned out to be in captivity in China. Those people are mentioned History of the early Han by Chinese historian Ban. In 1989, Guan Yiquan, a Professor of the historic faculty of the Institute for Nationalities, Lanzhou, introduced new maps with another four cities built by Lijiang’s residents. According to his toponymic research, the city of Lijiang was later renamed Tszelu, which means "the prisoners captured during the assault on the city." *** The fate of the hero is incredibly intertwined with the outstanding personalities’ lives in the second part of the I-st century...