Marco Polo is said to have been born in Venice in 1254. Together with his father and his uncle, he traveled to the kingdom of Kublai Khan by following the Silk Road to China. He returned from his travels in 1295 and began dictating his narrative, The Travels of Marco Polo, in 1296.
Marco Polo is the name of the Italian traveler who wrote an account of life in the Far East. The itinerant merchant in question (September 15, 1254 - January 8/9, 1324) recorded his 24-year-long travels in connection with trading posts previously established by his father Niccolò (1230 - 1294) and his uncle Maffeo (1230 - 1309) in the Crimean city of Sudak, the Turkish city of Constantinople, and the western parts of the Mongol Empire (1206 - 1368) during the reign of Kublai Khan (September 23, 1215 - February 18, 1294). The memoirs from 1276 to 1291 were published initially in Old French through Marco's acquaintance with Rustichello da Pisa, author of the first known Arthurian romance -- Roman de Roi Artus (Romance of King Arthur) -- by an Italian writer, during overlapping imprisonments in Genoa, Italy from 1298 to 1299.
Italian East Africa was created in 1936.
Italian East Africa ended in 1941.
The Adriatic Sea is located to the East of the Italian peninsula
Italian East African lira ended in 1941.
Italian East African lira was created in 1936.
The motto of Italian East Africa is 'Foedere et Religione Tenemur'.
The early traveler to China was Marco Polo, an Italian merchant and explorer. He journeyed to China in the late 13th century and spent several years there, working for the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan. Polo's detailed accounts of his travels in China became widely known in Europe and contributed to Western understanding of the East.
The first European traveler who opened the door to the east is the Venetian citizen Marco Polo [1.254 - 1.325 AD/ CE] the first who traveled the Silk Road to Cathay/ China at 1.271 AD/ CE.
Venice was one of the two Italian cities that monopolized trade with the far east.
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