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  2. Marco Polo - Wikipedia

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    Statue of Marco Polo in Hangzhou, China. The book opens with a preface describing his father and uncle travelling to Bolghar where Prince Berke Khan lived. A year later, they went to Ukek [77] and continued to Bukhara. There, an envoy from the Levant invited them to meet Kublai Khan, who had never met Europeans. [78]

  3. Did Marco Polo Go to China? - Wikipedia

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    A number of scholars have argued in favor of the established view that Polo was in China in response to Wood's book. [2] The book has been criticized by figures including Igor de Rachewiltz (translator and annotator of The Secret History of the Mongols) and Morris Rossabi (author of Kublai Khan: his life and times).

  4. The Travels of Marco Polo - Wikipedia

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    Larner, John (1999), Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World, New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-07971-0. Olschki, Leonardo (1960), Marco Polo's Asia: An Introduction to His "Description of the World" Called "Il Milione", translated by John A. Scott, Berkeley: University of California Press, OCLC 397577.

  5. Europeans in Medieval China - Wikipedia

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    Marco Polo mentioned the heavy presence of Genoese Italians at Tabriz (modern Iran), a city that Marco returned to from China via the Strait of Hormuz in 1293–1294. [73] John Mandeville, a mid-14th-century author and alleged Englishman from St Albans, claimed to have lived in China and even served at the Mongol khan's court. [74]

  6. Bayan of the Baarin - Wikipedia

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    Bayan of the Baarin (Mongolian: Баян; 1236 – January 11, 1295), or Boyan (Chinese: 伯顔; pinyin: Bóyán) was an ethnic Mongol general of the Yuan dynasty of China. He was known to Marco Polo as "Bayan Hundred Eyes" (probably from a confusion with Chinese: 百眼; pinyin: Bǎiyǎn). [1]

  7. Marco Polo may have discovered America hundreds of years ...

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    A map may prove that Marco Polo discovered America more than two centuries before Christopher Columbus. A sheepskin map, believed to be a copy of the 13th century Italian explorer's, may indicate ...

  8. Yuan dynasty - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 December 2024. Mongol-led dynasty of China (1271–1368) Great Yuan 大元 Dà Yuán (Chinese) ᠳᠠᠢ ᠦᠨ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ Dai Ön ulus (Mongolian) 1271–1368 Yuan dynasty (c. 1290) Status Khagan -ruled division of the Mongol Empire Conquest dynasty of Imperial China Capital Khanbaliq (now Beijing ...

  9. Why Is Marco Polo Max Mara's Latest Muse?

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    In 1271, armed with a curious mind and a thirst for adventure, Venetian merchant Marco Polo headed east. He returned 24 years later with so many stories of the Silk Road that he was nicknamed Il ...