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Ibn Battuta

14th-century Moroccan explorer whose travels documented Yuan Dynasty China and who called Quanzhou one of the largest ports in the world.

Also known as Battuta

Ibn Battuta (1304 CE–1369 CE) was a legendary Moroccan explorer who visited Yuan China via Quanzhou (Zaiton). His detailed travelogues celebrated China's porcelain industries, merchant fleets, and unmatched infrastructure.

Life and times

  1. 1304 CEBornYuanMing
  2. 1277Quanzhou Zayton as Global HubTook partKnown internationally as Zayton, Quanzhou was a major maritime trade center linking Song-Yuan China to overseas networks from the tenth through fourteenth centuries.
  3. 1369 CEDied

Connections

  1. Shared events1
    1. Marco Polo1254 CE–1324 CE