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Niccolò Polo (Italian: [nikkoˌlɔ pˈpɔːlo], Venetian: [nikoˌɰɔ ˈpolo]; c. 1230 – c. 1294) and Maffeo Polo ([mafˈfɛːo ˈpɔːlo], Venetian: [maˈfɛo ˈpolo]; or Matteo [matˈtɛːo], Venetian:; c. 1230 – c. 1309) were Italian traveling merchants from the Republic of Venice, best known as the father and uncle ...
Gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder Maffeo Polo (auch Matteo Polo; † zwischen 1310 und 1318) unternahm Niccolò Polo etwa von 1260 bis 1269 eine erste Handelsreise ins Mongolenreich, wurde von Kublai Khan gut aufgenommen und von diesem bei der Heimreise mit der Zusendung christlicher Missionare beauftragt.
10. Sept. 2019 · Marco Polo came from a family of merchants. When he was a small child, his father Niccolò and uncle Maffeo were already amassing some remarkable travel experiences. The shrewd traders had...
8. Mai 2024 · Marco Polo’s father, Niccolò, and uncle, Maffeo, continued this legacy. Traveling east as far as Mongol emperor Kublai Khan’s summer residence, Shangdu, they established friendly relations with him before returning to Europe as his ambassadors.
- Marco Polo was 17 or 18 when he began his journey from Venice to the farthest reaches of the Mongol empire. Living among the emperor’s dominions, w...
- Marco Polo’s account in Il milione opened new vistas to the European mind, and, as Western horizons expanded, Polo’s legacy grew as well. The wealt...
- Kublai Khan sent Marco Polo on fact-finding missions to distant parts of the empire, including visits to Yunnan (and possibly Myanmar [Burma]) and...
30. Juli 2012 · Marco Polo was born around 1254 into a prosperous merchant family in the Italian city-state of Venice. His father, Niccolò, and his uncle Maffeo had left the year before on a long-term trading ...
8. Jan. 2024 · Polo's father Niccolò and his uncle Matteo ( Maffeo in Venetian) had a palace very close to Zorzi's Grand Canal apartment, as well as offices in Constantinople that they had the acumen to...
In European exploration: The land routes of Central Asia. In 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… Read More.
