• Niccolò de' Conti (c. 1395 – 1469) was an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer. Born in Chioggia, he traveled to India and Southeast Asia, and possibly...
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    wrote to them to let them come to Judda, and to show them honor. Niccolò de' Conti (c. 1395–1469), a contemporary of Zheng He, was also an eyewitness...
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    medieval European travelers such as Domingo Paes, Fernão Nunes, and Niccolò de' Conti. These travelogues, contemporary literature and epigraphy in the local...
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    of the journeys of Italian merchant and traveller Niccolò de' Conti. Setting out in 1419, De Conti traveled throughout Asia as far as China and present-day...
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    (1688–1766) Cristoforo Colombo (1451–1506) Ambrogio Contarini (1429–1499) Niccolò de' Conti (1395–1469) Andrea Corsali (1487–?) Antonio da Noli (1418–1496) Giovanni...
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    champion Niccolò Da Conti, Venetian merchant and explorer Niccolò Matas, Italian architect Niccolò de' Niccoli, Italian Renaissance humanist Niccolò Piccinino...
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    Russian merchant from Tver and one of the first Europeans (after Niccolò de' Conti) to travel to and document his visit to India. He described his trip...
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  • Film Role Notes 1973 The Age of the Medici (L'età di Cosimo de Medici) Niccolò de' Conti Episode: "The Power of Cosimo" ("Il potere di Cosimo") 1974 Cartesius...
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    of Niccolò de' Conti, who travelled to Southeast Asia in the 15th century. Translated from the Latin in which Poggio Bracciolini recorded de Conti's travels:...
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    Vijayanagara Empire, where it was called Mahanavami. The Italian traveller Niccolò de' Conti described the festival's intensity and importance as a grandeur religious...
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    regarding the actual place of Taprobane. In the fifteenth century, Niccolò de' Conti mistakenly identified Taprobana as a much smaller island. In 1507...
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  • India. Andaman and Nicobar Islands (A): Andaman: Italian traveler Niccolò de' Conti (c. 1440) mentioned the word Andaman meant "Island of Gold". A theory...
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    envoys included Odoric of Pordenone, Giovanni de' Marignolli, John of Montecorvino, Niccolò de' Conti, and Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan Muslim traveller who...
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    cartografica. La mappamundi di Fra Mauro e i racconti di Marco Polo e Niccolò de' Conti", Itineraria 3-4 (2005), pp. 157–202 [ISSN 1594-1019]. Cattaneo, Angelo;...
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    ships carrying 500 to 1,000 passengers in their translated accounts. Niccolò de' Conti, a contemporary of Zheng He, was also an eyewitness of ships in Southeast...
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    since at least the days of Marco Polo (1254–1324). During the 1420s, Niccolò de' Conti, a prominent Italian traveller and merchant who lived in India, had...
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    Moon in the month of Kartika. The Venetian merchant and traveler Niccolò de' Conti visited India in the early 15th-century and wrote in his memoir, "on...
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    Suravaram Pratapa Reddy and others. The 15th-century Venetian explorer Niccolò de' Conti, who visited the Vijayanagara Empire, found that the words in the...
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    countries especially from Abyssinia, Zirbad and Zanzibar. The Italian Niccolò de' Conti (1445), perhaps the first Christian traveller who noticed Kozhikode...
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    1388), an Italian physician, astronomer and mechanical engineer. Niccolò de' Conti (ca.1395–1469), an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer. John Cabot...
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    He also visited Tehran. 1420–1436: Travels of the Italian explorer Niccolò de' Conti to India and Southeast Asia. 1436–1439: Travels of Pedro Tafur across...
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    Hampi (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Ahmad Khan's legacy. Hampi ruins, 19th century In the memoirs of Niccolò de' Conti, an Italian merchant and traveller who visited Hampi about 1420, the...
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    India's main two ocean ports. Another Italian, visiting in about 1440, Niccolò de' Conti, mentions that the walls of the city were twelve miles in circumference...
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    André de Longjumeau, Odoric of Pordenone, Giovanni de' Marignolli, Giovanni di Monte Corvino, and other travellers such as Niccolò de' Conti. Philosophical...
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    outer wall of the Hazara Rama temple of Hampi. The Italian traveller Niccolò de' Conti described the festival's intensity and importance as a grandeur religious...
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    Following the period of Timurid relations with Europe, in 1439, Niccolò de' Conti published an account of his travels as a Muslim merchant to India...
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    Africa in search of new trading routes and business opportunities. Niccolò de' Conti arrived in Southeast Asia as the earliest documented European in the...
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    the 13th century. Many other notable Venetians also visited India. Niccolò de' Conti left Venice in 1419 to visit the Middle East, Persia and then India...
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    matrilineal system of succession (Marumakkathayam). Abdur Razzak (1442–43), Niccolò de' Conti (1445), Afanasy Nikitin (1468–74), Ludovico di Varthema (1503–1508)...
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  • explorer is generally contemporary with travels by the fellow-Venetian Niccolò de' Conti and Gasparo Balbi. The Genoese Hieronymo di San Stefano and Varthema...
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