Talk:Are (surname)

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Support and Supplementation to the Translations from the History of Yuan

http://books.google.com/books?id=S1MrAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA5-PA107&lpg=RA5-PA107&dq=阿熱氏&source=bl&ots=SmaQpnLHeU&sig=v3wSc2-hGdiUFi0f7TDtRkvnQsI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ni1mUNrcLenK0AGpyYHQDQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=阿熱氏&f=false

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the text is [similar to text] from the New Book of Tang — largely, with some textual differences but largely the same. (See New Book of Tang, vol. 217, part 2

"其君曰「阿熱」，遂姓阿熱氏" ("their ruler was known as "Are," so they took the surname of Are").

Rajmaan (talk) 00:39, 20 May 2013 (UTC)