Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen, better known in English as Baron von Richthofen, was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist. He is noted for coining the terms "Seidenstraße" and ...

“The Golden Road,” he writes ... a route that was given its name by a 19th-century German geographer, Ferdinand von Richthofen. Indeed, it is this concept that Dalrymple is gunning for.

Forget the Silk Roads, it’s the Golden Road we should be celebrating. Renowned historian William Dalrymple argues that, ...

Ferdinand von Richthofen, a German geographer and traveller, is credited with popularising the term ‘Silk Road’ in 1877. The Silk Road didn't enter English before 1936; in the 1980s it became a ...

That Buddha embodies the show’s ambition to expand the desert-caravan “Silk Road” — so named by the 19th-century German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen — to a web of trade routes ...

Nestled at the crossroads of ancient empires and bustling trade routes, the Fergana region is where history whispers through the wind-swept deserts and cloud-piercing mountains. In the valley ...

I don't think there was a Silk Road (at this time); I think ... It was invented by a German geographer, Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen, in 1877 or certainly popularized by him.

Although they aren’t credited with having developed the first airplane, Magnus, Wilhelm, and Ferdinand von Wright were accomplished in their own right, each known as a great painter of portraits, ...