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Marco Polo (/ ˈmɑːrkoʊ ˈpoʊloʊ / ⓘ, Venetian: [ˈmaɾko ˈpolo], Italian: [ˈmarko ˈpɔːlo] ⓘ; c. 1254 – 8 January 1324) [1] was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. [2][3] His travels are recorded in The Travels of Marco Polo (also known as Book of the ...
915.042. Book of the Marvels of the World (Italian: Il Milione, lit. 'The Million', possibly derived from Polo's nickname "Emilione"), [1] in English commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo. It describes Polo's travels through ...
Wade–Giles. Lu-kou Chiao. The Marco Polo Bridge or Lugou Bridge (simplified Chinese: 卢沟桥; traditional Chinese: 盧溝橋; pinyin: Lúgōu Qiáo) [1] is a stone bridge located 15 km southwest of Beijing 's city center in the Fengtai District. It bridges the Yongding River, a major tributary of Hai River. Situated at the eastern end of ...
Grand Canal (China) The canal in Beijing, by the Wanning Bridge. The Grand Canal (Chinese: 大运河; pinyin: Dà yùnhé) is a system of interconnected canals linking various major rivers in North and East China, serving as an important waterborne transport infrastructure between the north and the south during Medieval and premodern China.
The Marco Polo Bridge incident, also known as the Lugou Bridge incident[a] or the July 7 incident, [b] was a battle during July 1937 in the district of Beijing between the 29th Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the Imperial Japanese Army. Since the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, there had been many ...
Shangdu is located in the present-day Zhenglan Banner, Inner Mongolia. In June 2012, it was made a World Heritage Site for its historical importance and for the unique blending of Mongolian and Chinese culture. [3] Venetian traveller Marco Polo described Shangdu to Europeans after visiting it in 1275.
978-0-8133-8999-8. Did Marco Polo Go to China? is a 1995 book, by Frances Wood, arguing that Italian explorer Marco Polo never visited China but travelled no further than Persia and that he based his description of China on accounts from Persian travelers. The book notes that Polo failed to mention the Great Wall, the use of chopsticks as ...
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