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| batang island singapore: The Travels of Marco Polo (Complete) Marco Polo da Pisa Rusticiano, “Of all that I have named, Ptolemy, as the latest, possessed the greatest extent of knowledge. Thus, towards the North, his knowledge carries him beyond the Caspian, and he is aware of its being shut in all round like a lake,—a fact which was unknown in the days of Strabo and Pliny, though the Romans were already lords of the world. But though his knowledge extends so far, a tract of 15 degrees beyond that sea he can describe only as Terra Incognita; and towards the South he is fain to apply the same character to all beyond the Equinoxial. In these unknown regions, as regards the South, the first to make discoveries have been the Portuguese captains of our own age; but as regards the North and North-East the discoverer was the Magnifico Messer Marco Polo, an honoured nobleman of Venice, nearly 300 years since, as may be read more fully in his own Book. And in truth it makes one marvel to consider the immense extent of the journeys made, first by the Father and Uncle of the said Messer Marco, when they proceeded continually towards the East-North-East, all the way to the Court of the Great Can and the Emperor of the Tartars; and afterwards again by the three of them when, on their return homeward, they traversed the Eastern and Indian Seas. Nor is that all, for one marvels also how the aforesaid gentleman was able to give such an orderly description of all that he had seen; seeing that such an accomplishment was possessed by very few in his day, and he had had a large part of his nurture among those uncultivated Tartars, without any regular training in the art of composition. His Book indeed, owing to the endless errors and inaccuracies that had crept into it, had come for many years to be regarded as fabulous; and the opinion prevailed that the names of cities and provinces contained therein were all fictitious and imaginary, without any ground in fact, or were (I might rather say) mere dreams. “Howbeit, during the last hundred years, persons acquainted with Persia have begun to recognise the existence of Cathay. Ramusio vindicates Polo’s Geography.The voyages of the Portuguese also towards the North-East, beyond the Golden Chersonese, have brought to knowledge many cities and provinces of India, and many islands likewise, with those very names which our Author applies to them; and again, on reaching the Land of China, they have ascertained from the people of that region (as we are told by Sign. John de Barros, a Portuguese gentleman, in his Geography) that Canton, one of the chief cities of that kingdom, is in 30⅔° of latitude, with the coast running N.E. and S.W.; that after a distance of 275 leagues the said coast turns towards the N.W.; and that there are three provinces along the sea-board, Mangi, Zanton, and Quinzai, the last of which is the principal city and the King’s Residence, standing in 46° of latitude. And proceeding yet further the coast attains to 50°. Seeing then how many particulars are in our day becoming known of that part of the world concerning which Messer Marco has written, I have deemed it reasonable to publish his book, with the aid of several copies written (as I judge) more than 200 years ago, in a perfectly accurate form, and one vastly more faithful than that in which it has been heretofore read. And thus the world shall not lose the fruit that may be gathered from so much diligence and industry expended upon so honourable a branch of knowledge.” |
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| batang island singapore: Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia Gwyn Campbell, 2004-11-23 The abolition of slavery in and around the Western Indian Ocean have been little studied. This collection examines the meaning of slavery and its abolition in relation to specific indigenous societies and to Islam, a religion that embraced the entire region, and draws comparisons between similar developments in the Atlantic system. Case studies include South Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Benadir Coast, Arabia, the Persian Gulf and India. This volume marks an important new development in the study of slavery and its abolition in general, and an original approach to the history of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Asia regions. |
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| batang island singapore: A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands & Adjacent Countries John Crawfurd, 1856 |
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| batang island singapore: Annual report of the Government Monopolies Department for the year Straits Settlements. Monopolies Department, 1930 |
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| batang island singapore: Cathay and the Way Thither. Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China Henri Cordier, 2018-01-12 Volume I followed (Second Series 38). A revised edition of First Series 36 (1866) and 37 (1866) above, whose title page was followed. The appendix contains a Latin and an Italian text of Friar Odoric's travels in the early fourteenth century. Continued in Second Series 37 and 41 below. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1913. |
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| batang island singapore: Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World J.B. Lippincott Company, 1880 |
| batang island singapore: Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World , 1880 |
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| batang island singapore: Researches on Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Asia (further India and Indo-Malay Archipelago). Gerolamo Emilio Gerini, 1909 |
| batang island singapore: Sailing Directions for Malacca Strait and Sumatra United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Hydrographic Center, 1975 |
| batang island singapore: Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia , 1823 |
| batang island singapore: Eastern Archipelago Pilot Great Britain. Hydrographic Department, 1953 |
| batang island singapore: Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies , 1823 |
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| batang island singapore: A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya Nicholas Belfield Dennys, 1894 |
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| batang island singapore: The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo, Sir Henry Yule, Henri Cordier, 1993-01-01 A vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals, politicals, more. |
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| batang island singapore: Memoir of the life and public services of Sir T. S. Raffles ... particularly in the government of Java, 1811-16, ... with details of the ... resources of the Eastern Archipelago and selections from his correspondence Lady Sophia Raffles, 1830 |
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| batang island singapore: Asiatic Pilot: The coasts of Sumatra and the adjacent straits and islands United States. Hydrographic Office, 1917 |
| batang island singapore: Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles Lady Sophia Raffles, 1830 |
| batang island singapore: The Encyclopædia Britannica Thomas Spencer Baynes, 1891 |
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Batang Regency - Wikipedia
Batang (Javanese: ꦧꦠꦁ) is a regency (Indonesian: kabupaten) on the north coast of Central Java province in Indonesia. It was created on 14 June 1965 from what was previously the …
Batang, Batang - Wikipedia
The town of Batang is the administrative capital of Batang Regency, Indonesia. It is a coastal town, situated immediately to the east of the large city of Pekalongan. The town itself forms an …
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Mar 30, 2022 · Batang is a Korean font that features a mincho (serif) stroke style. See the Windows 11 page. See the Windows 10 page. See the Windows 8.1 page. See the Windows 8 …
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