Rabban Bar Sauma

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Rabban Bar Sauma was a Turkic/Mongol monk turned diplomat of the Nestorian Christian faith. He is known for embarking on a pilgrimage from Mongol-controlled China to Jerusalem. See his journey at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VoyagesOfRabbanBarSauma.jpg, or read the text at http://www.aina.org/books/mokk/mokk.htm

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Istanbul
Istanbul
Turkiye
Inscribed: 1985
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1287: He Had An Audience With Andronicus Ii Palaeologus. Bar Sauma's Writings Give A Particularly Enthusiastic Description Of The Beautiful Hagia Sophia.
Rome
Rome
Holy See, Italy
Inscribed: 1980
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928
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1287: He Next Travelled To Rome, But Too Late To Meet Pope Honorius Iv, Who Had Recently Died. So Bar Sauma Instead Engaged In Negotiations With The Cardinals, And Visited St. Peter's Basilica.
Vatican City
Inscribed: 1984
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828
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1287: He Next Travelled To Rome, But Too Late To Meet Pope Honorius Iv, Who Had Recently Died. So Bar Sauma Instead Engaged In Negotiations With The Cardinals, And Visited St. Peter's Basilica.
Naples
Naples
Italy
Inscribed: 1995
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Visited 1287, See Map
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Isole Eolie
Inscribed: 2000
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During His Voyage Westwards, He Saw Either Mount Vesuvius, Or Mount Etna, Or, Perhaps, As Bedjan Suggests, Stromboli, Which Was Then In Eruption (See Source At Link)
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Paris, Banks of the Seine
Inscribed: 1991
4.19
956
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Sawma Remained In Paris For A Month And During This Time He Was Shown The Educational Institutions Of Paris, With Their 30,000 Pupils, Who Were Maintained By The King. One Day He Was Taken Into The Church Of St. Denis, Containing The Mausoleum Of The Kings Of France, And On Another Day Into The Famous Sainte Chapelle. (See Source At Link)
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Mount Etna
Inscribed: 2013
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He Witnessed And Recorded The Great Eruption Of Mount Etna On June 18, 1287 (Wiki)
Ani
Ani
Turkiye
Inscribed: 2016
3.48
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"In His Middle Age, Rabban Bar Sauma And One Of His Younger Students, Rabban Markos, Embarked On A Journey From Yuan China To Make Pilgrimage To Jerusalem. They Traveled By Way Of The Former Tangut Country, Khotan, Kashgar, Taraz In The Syr Darya Valley, Khorasan (Now Afghanistan), Maragha (Now Azerbaijan) And Mosul, Arriving At Ani In The Kingdom Of Georgia." (Wikipedia)
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