Maffeo Polo

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Maffeo Polo

Italian explorer

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Marco Polo
Polo’s journey to Asia
Niccolò and Maffeo remained in Venice anticipating the election of a new pope, but in 1271, after two years of waiting, they departed with Marco for the Mongol court. In Acre (now in Israel) the papal legate, Teobaldo of Piacenza, gave them letters for the Mongol emperor.…
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Niccolò and Maffeo remained in Venice anticipating the election of a new pope, but in 1271, after two years of waiting, they departed with Marco for the Mongol court. In Acre (now in Israel) the papal legate, Teobaldo of Piacenza, gave them letters for the Mongol emperor.…
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European exploration
The land routes of Central Asia
…1260 the brothers Nicolo and Maffeo Polo set out on a trading expedition to Crimea. After two years they were ready to return to Venice, but, finding the way home blocked by war, they traveled eastward to Bukhara (now in Uzbekistan in Central Asia), where they spent another three years.…
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…1260 the brothers Nicolo and Maffeo Polo set out on a trading expedition to Crimea. After two years they were ready to return to Venice, but, finding the way home blocked by war, they traveled eastward to Bukhara (now in Uzbekistan in Central Asia), where they spent another three years.…
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