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    Ludovico di Varthema, also known as Barthema and Vertomannus (c. 1470 – 1517), was an Italian traveller, diarist and aristocrat known for being one of...
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  • (1401–1465), Italian catholic prelate Ludovico di Varthema (c. 1470–1517), Italian traveller and writer Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi (1475–1527), papal...
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    was certainly not the first non-Muslim European to make the Hajj (Ludovico di Varthema did this in 1503), his pilgrimage remains one of the most famous...
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    reached its greatest accomplishment. Ludovico di Varthema (1470–1517), in his book Itinerario de Ludouico de Varthema Bolognese stated that the Southern...
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    reached its greatest accomplishment. Ludovico di Varthema (1470–1517), in his book Itinerario de Ludouico de Varthema Bolognese stated that the Southern...
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    reprint 1997 White Lotus Press. ISBN 974-8496-78-3 Varthema, Ludovico di, The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema, A.D.1503–08, translated from the original 1510...
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    Ludovico di Varthema, Book 3, On India, Chapter 27; George Percy Badger (ed.) and John Winter Jones (transl.), The travels of Ludivico di Varthema in...
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    the mid-15th century. The testimony of European travelers such as Ludovico di Varthema, Duarte Barbosa and Tomé Pires attest to the presence of a large...
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    was certainly not the first non-Muslim European to make the Hajj (Ludovico di Varthema did this in 1503 and Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1815), his pilgrimage...
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    El-Darad. Travellers' reports, such as the memoirs of the Italian Ludovico di Varthema, indicate that Zeila continued to be an important marketplace during...
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    the Bengal Sultanate was attested by European travelers, including Ludovico di Varthema, Duarte Barbosa and Tomé Pires. According to travelers, Sonargaon...
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    reprint 1997 White Lotus Press. ISBN 9748496783 Varthema, Ludovico di, The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema, A.D.1503–08, translated from the original 1510...
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    documentation by the West about Brunei is by an Italian known as Ludovico di Varthema. On his documentation back to 1550; We arrived at the island of Bornei...
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    'Corimondal' and the name stuck thereafter. An Italian explorer, Ludovico di Varthema, perhaps first gave the name Coromandel in 1510, which was then used...
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    en route to the Vijayanagara court.: 31  The Italian traveller, Ludovico di Varthema, who visited India in 1506 says that he witnessed nearly sixty ships...
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  • referenced by several Italian travelers such as Obadiah of Bertinoro and Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna; the latter claimed to have discovered 5,000 Jews in Khaybar...
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  • Bangkok: White Lotus Press. ISBN 974-8496-78-3. di Varthema, Ludovico (1863). The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia...
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  • Conti's book was used by several explorers and travel writers, such as Ludovico di Varthema (1510), and Antonio Pigafetta, who travelled around the world with...
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    Mangalore en route to the Vijayanagara court.: 31  The Italian traveller Ludovico di Varthema, who visited India in 1506, said he saw nearly sixty ships laden...
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    Athanasius Nikitin (1470) came from Russia. Niccolò de' Conti (1420), Ludovico di Varthema (1505), Caesar Fredericci (1567) and Filippo Sassetti (1585) were...
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    Along with other ports and settlements in East Africa, explorers Ludovico di Varthema, Duarte Barbosa and Leo Africanus wrote brief accounts of the port...
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    during a war and then made slaves. Ludovico di Varthema (1470–1517), in his book Itinerario de Ludouico de Varthema Bolognese, stated that the Southern...
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    1472. Similarly, accounts from travelers like Afanasiy Nikitin, Ludovico di Varthema, and Afonso de Albuquerque confirm the deployment of gunpowder weapons...
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    reprint 1997 White Lotus Press. ISBN 974-8496-78-3 Varthema, Ludovico di, The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema, A.D. 1503–08, translated from the original 1510...
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    and Anthony Shirley, and for India Duarte Barbosa, Ralph Fitch, Ludovico di Varthema, Cesare Federici, and Jan Huyghen van Linschoten. Humanist travellers...
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    used in the detailed description of coconut found in Itinerario by Ludovico di Varthema published in 1510 and also in the later Hortus Indicus Malabaricus...
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    Indonesia, pp. 53–124 Jones, John Winter (1863). The travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India...
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  • communities claim a migrant past. Early European travelers like Ludovico di Varthema (15th century) traveled to Gujarat and wrote on the people of Gujarat...
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    Abyssinians to which he immediately sold off to his friends in Arabia. Ludovico di Varthema, who visited Zeila in 1503 wrote that the port was a place of immense...
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    have been influenced by the phrase used by the Italian traveler Ludovico di Varthema in describing Java which, he said, “prope in inmensum patet (extends...
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