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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 [2] ( 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 ...
Died: January 1294, Baghdad, Iraq. Rabban bar Sauma (born c. 1220, Zhongdu [now Beijing], China—died January 1294, Baghdad, Iraq) 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 (Bar Ṣaumā, syr.: ܒܪ ܨܘܡܐ, * ca. 1220 in Peking; † Januar 1294 in Bagdad) war ein nestorianischer Mönch und Diplomat. Bar Ṣaumā wurde in eine wohlhabende nestorianische Familie in Peking hineingeboren. Nach Gregorius Bar-Hebraeus war er uigurischer Abstammung, nach chinesischen Quellen gehörte er zum Turkvolk der Onguden.
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.
Jul 31, 2019 · First in a series on Rabban Bar Sauma, covering his life from miracle-baby through cave-bound monk and on to pilgrim, with ambassador to the cities of western Europe not far behind. This episode takes us from Yuan China to Jerusalem, or perhaps not quite that far.
Rabban Bar Sauma recounted his voyages in a work composed in the Syriac language, describing especially the journey from Khān Bālīq to Persia, the vicissitudes of the patriarch Rabban Marcos, and his peregrinations through Europe.
May 13, 2021 · Rabban Bar Sauma left China in 1275, followed the Silk Road, and made his way to Baghdad, Constantinople, and France, meeting khans, kings, and a pope. The remarkable Bar Sauma was born in Zhongdu ...
