of Johannes. It is equivalent to the English surname Johnson. The near homonyms "Jensen" and "Jansson" are its Danish, Norwegian and Swedish counterparts...
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the bulk of the fleet entered the Tyrrhenian Sea. This is not the only homonym one encounters in reconstructing the biography of Giorgio. In those years...
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côca). In the West it was originally called nux indica, a name used by Marco Polo in 1280 while in Sumatra. He took the term from the Arabs, who called...
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Friar Odoric of Pordenone visited India in 1316–1318, some 20 years after Marco Polo had dictated the account of his travels while in a Genovese prison. In...
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she wrote the stage music for the complete reading of Il Milione by Marco Polo, with artistic direction by Gianfranco De Bosio and images by Emanuele...
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Luxembourgish people.) From Madageiscar, a corruption of Mogadishu popularized by Marco Polo. Possibly based on a native word meaning "flaming water" or "tongues of...
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Kenneth, ed. (2013). Explorers of Antiquity: From Alexander the Great to Marco Polo. New York, NY: Britannica Educational Publishing. ISBN 978-1-62275-027-6...
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by Appian, the Illyrian king Epidamnos was the eponymous founder of the homonym city. His grandson Dyrrhachos, son of Epidamnos' daughter Melissa and Poseidon...
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e69: 1–16. doi:10.1017/S0022149X22000529. Bergreen, Laurence (2007). Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu. London: Quercus. ISBN 978-1-84724-345-4. Dohner...
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It was aired on television as a two-parter. It is an adaptation of the homonym book by Giuseppe Pederiali. It has been presented at the 26th Festival...
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