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Page xxiv
... Asia Minor , we may infer that he may actually have started on the mission assigned him in 1245 , and may have visited parts of western Asia , thus acquiring such knowledge of that region as justified the Pope's selection of him for ...
... Asia Minor , we may infer that he may actually have started on the mission assigned him in 1245 , and may have visited parts of western Asia , thus acquiring such knowledge of that region as justified the Pope's selection of him for ...
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... Asia Minor . It was formed from the Seldjuk empire in 1084 , and lasted to 1300 ( Hammer , op . cit . , i , 11 , et seq . ) . Pian de Carpine ( 680 ) speaks of " the soldan of Urum , " but nowhere uses the word Turkia . 1 This name was ...
... Asia Minor . It was formed from the Seldjuk empire in 1084 , and lasted to 1300 ( Hammer , op . cit . , i , 11 , et seq . ) . Pian de Carpine ( 680 ) speaks of " the soldan of Urum , " but nowhere uses the word Turkia . 1 This name was ...
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... Asia from Europe , just as the river of Egypt divides Asia from Affrica . At the place where we came to it Baatu and Sartach had established a village of Ruthenians on the east bank , who ferried envoys and merchants across on small ...
... Asia from Europe , just as the river of Egypt divides Asia from Affrica . At the place where we came to it Baatu and Sartach had established a village of Ruthenians on the east bank , who ferried envoys and merchants across on small ...
Contents
PREFACE | ix |
ITINERARY OF FRIAR William of RUBRUCK | xlv |
THE JOURNEY OF FRIAR JOHN OF PIAN DE CARPINE | 1 |
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