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Rabban Bar Ṣawma (Syriac language: ܪܒܢ ܒܪ ܨܘܡܐ, [rɑbbɑn bɑrsˤɑwma]; c. 1220 – January 1294), also known as Rabban Ṣawma or Rabban Çauma (simplified Chinese: 拉班·扫马; traditional Chinese: 拉賓掃務瑪; pinyin: lābīn sǎowùmǎ), was a Uyghur or Ongud monk turned diplomat of the "Nestorian" Church of the East in ...
Rabban bar Sauma was a Nestorian Christian ecclesiastic, whose important but little-known travels in western Europe as an envoy of the Mongols provide a counterpart to those of his contemporary, the Venetian Marco Polo, in Asia.
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Rabban Bar Sauma. c.1220-1294. Chinese Nestorian Monk and Explorer. I n the late 1280s, a Nestorian Christian monk named Rabban Bar Sauma took the opposite route of many of his contemporary explorers by venturing from his homeland in China to western Europe.
May 13, 2021 · Rabban Bar Sauma's epic, east-to-west travels rival Marco Polo’s. HISTORY MAGAZINE. This Chinese monk's epic, east-to-west travels rival Marco Polo's. In the 13th century, a Mongolian khan...
One of these ambassadors was the Nestorian monk Rabban Bar Sauma (ca. 1220-1294), who journeyed from Khān Bālīq to Persia in 1260, together with the future patriarch of the Church in Persia, Rabban Marcos (1245-1317). In 1288, accompanied by two Genoese interpreters, Rabban Bar Sauma visited Constantinople, Sicily, Naples, Rome (where he ...
The first person from Turkik China to visit Europe, Bar Sauma (c. 1225–1294) was a Christian monk also known by the honorific Rabban Sauma. Sauma traveled to Rome and Paris on a diplomatic mission to attempt an alliance between western European monarchs and Mongols in Iran.
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Rabban Bar Sauma (Bar Ṣaumā, syriaque : ܒܪ ܨܘܡܐ, * vers 1225 à Pékin ; † janvier 1294 à Bagdad) est un Ouïghour chrétien nestorien à l'époque de la domination mongole, originaire de Pékin, qui se fit moine, et conduisit en Europe une mission diplomatique pour le compte d'un souverain mongol de Perse.
