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    Odoric of Pordenone (c. 1280–14 January 1331), was a Franciscan friar and missionary explorer from Friuli in northeast Italy. He journeyed through India...
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    Maria Calderari, pupil of Il Pordenone. Church of Blessed Odoric of Pordenone, built by architect Mario Botta in 1990–1992. Church of S. Ulderico, located...
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    early date the coincidence of Mandeville's stories with those of Odoric was recognized, insomuch that a manuscript of Odoric which is or was in the chapter...
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    friar and missionary Odoric of Pordenone, who describes Hindus, as a religious sacrifice, casting themselves under the wheels of these huge chariots and...
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  • D., Italian football club Odoric of Pordenone This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pordenone. If an internal link led you...
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    descriptions of strange races of people then believed to inhabit eastern Asia and given in such accounts. For example, Odoric of Pordenone said that the...
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    name of Luzon [Doldiin], which Mr. Romanet in his work Les voyages en Asie au XIV siecle, took for original in the work of Bl. Odoric de Pordenone is due...
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    Sumatra (redirect from Wildlife of Sumatra)
    traveller Odoric of Pordenone used the form Sumoltra. Later in the 14th century the local form "Sumatra" became popular abroad due to the rising power of the...
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    (link) Odoric of Pordenone (1913) [c. 1350]. Yule, Henry; Cordier, Henri (eds.). Odoric of Pordenone. Cathay and the Way Thither. Being a collection of medieval...
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    stem. The Minorite Friar Odoric of Pordenone, upon recalling first hearing of the vegetable lamb, told of trees on the shore of the Irish Sea with gourd-like...
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    Cathay (redirect from Empire of Cathay)
    in Yuan dynasty China (he referred to southern China as Mangi). Odoric of Pordenone (d. 1331) also writes about Cathay and the Khan in his travelbooks...
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    Brahmin flesh. According to the 14th century traveller Odoric of Pordenone, the inhabitants of Lamuri, a kingdom in northern Sumatra, purchased children...
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    Marco Polo (category People of the War of Curzola)
    Khanbaliq during the Yuan dynasty, such as Giovanni de' Marignolli and Odoric of Pordenone, said nothing about the wall either. The Muslim traveller Ibn Battuta...
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    Lambri (category History of Sumatra)
    and Odoric of Pordenone. Polo wrote that there were men with tails in this kingdom of Lambri. The tails were a palm in length with the thickness of a dog's...
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    Europeans in Medieval China (category Foreign relations of Imperial China)
    dynasty. Marco Polo wrote a famous account of his travels there, as did the Franciscan friar Odoric of Pordenone and the merchant Francesco Balducci Pegolotti...
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    was made of hardwood shingles (Javanese: sirap) laid as tiles. This description of the palace is very different than that of Odoric of Pordenone, who visited...
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    Hangzhou (redirect from Capital of Zhejiang)
    2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022. Wassaf, The Allocation of Cities. (in Persian) Odoric of Pordenone, Travels. (in Latin) Moule, Arthur Christopher (1957)...
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    Yam (route) (category Postal history of Russia)
    travellers including Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, William of Rubruck, Marco Polo, and Odoric of Pordenone. While it was not the first messenger system in history...
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    "Cambaliech" (now Beijing). Friar Odoric of Pordenone arrived in India in 1321. He visited Malabar, touching at Pandarani (20 m. north of Calicut), at Cranganore...
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    and merchants who sailed into Calcutta and ports of the Bay of Bengal. The Italian Odoric of Pordenone who was a Franciscan friar, visited his temple and...
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  • consort of France (d. 1398) Michael Palaiologos, Byzantine prince probable – Salvestro de' Medici, provost of Florence (d. 1388) January 14 – Odoric of Pordenone...
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  • relics were removed to Quanzhou, China, and Tolentino, Italy, by Odoric of Pordenone. He is now venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, with...
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    as Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, William of Rubruck, Marco Polo, Odoric of Pordenone and Giovanni de' Marignolli, mentioned the Great Wall. The North...
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    these texts include Marco Polo, Odoric of Pordenone, Wilhelm von Boldensele, Uzbeg, Benedict XII, John Mandeville, Hayton of Corycus, Riccoldo da Monte di...
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    dsr.nii.ac.jp. Retrieved 3 November 2021. "The Travels of Friar Odoric, Blessed Odoric of Pordenone. …". www.nas.gov.sg. Retrieved 3 November 2021. "Niccolò...
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    they called Tatars in 1293.: 15–17  According to friar Odoric of Pordenone, the great khan of Cathay (Yuan dynasty) attacked Java (Majapahit) many times...
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    archbishop of Peking, and Patriarch of the Orient. ~1318–1329: Travels of the Franciscan friars, the Italian Odoric of Pordenone and James of Ireland via...
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    travellers such as Odoric of Pordenone who visited Sri Lanka. Catholicism was formally introduced by the Portuguese in 1505. 6.19% of the population (1...
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    1213 CE, Zakariya al-Qazwini in ca. 1252 CE, Marco Polo in 1271 CE, Odoric of Pordenone in ca. 1321 CE, Ibn Battuta in ca. 1330 CE, Ambrogio Contarini in...
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    Estakhr gradually declined, until it ceased to exist as a city. Odoric of Pordenone may have passed through Persepolis on his way to China in 1320, although...
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