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Xia

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Xia (Hsia in Wade–Giles) may refer to:

Chinese history

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  • Xia dynasty (c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC), the first orthodox dynasty in Chinese history
  • Xia (Sixteen Kingdoms) (407–431), a Xiongnu-led dynasty
  • Xia (617–621), a state founded by Dou Jiande near the end of the Sui dynasty
  • Western Xia (1038–1227), a Tangut-led dynasty
  • Eastern Xia (1215–1233), a Jurchen-led dynasty
  • Ming Xia (1362–1371), a short-lived dynasty that existed during the late Yuan dynasty period

Other uses

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  • Huaxia or Xia, an ancient ethnic group later known as the Han Chinese
  • Xia (surname), a Chinese surname
  • Xia (philosophy), a Chinese philosophy somewhat like the chivalrous code of European knights
  • Xia County, Shanxi, China
  • Xia Vigor (born 2009), British-Filipino actress
  • Xiafs, a file system developed for the Linux operating system together with the Ext2 file system
  • Xia class submarine, a Chinese ballistic missile submarine
  • BYD Xia, a minivan produced by BYD Auto named after the Xia dynasty
  • XIA, the ICAO Code for Irving Oil, Canada
  • XIA (Junsu), a Korean pop artist also known as Xiah and Junsu
  • Xia, the former stage name of Korean pop artist Jang Jin Young, formerly of RaNiA
  • Xia, a place in the fictional Bionicle universe
  • Xia, a hero or knight-errant in Chinese fiction, see wuxia

See also

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