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#Travel Writing
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People · Bahmani Sultanate
Afanasy Nikitin: The Tver Merchant Who Travelled to India Beyond Three Seas
Afanasy Nikitin, a merchant from Tver, reached India around 1471 and wrote the Journey Beyond Three Seas. What his text says, when he went, and what is myth.
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Sources & Evidence · Volga Bulgaria
Ibn Fadlan: The Baghdad Envoy Who Met the Vikings on the Volga
Who was Ibn Fadlan? Follow the Abbasid envoy from Baghdad to the Volga in 921–922 and read what he really wrote about the Rus' and their ship funeral.