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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 ...
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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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May 13, 2021 · Learn about Rabban Bar Sauma, a Nestorian monk who traveled from China to Europe in the 13th century. He met Mongol khans, Christian leaders, and a pope, and sought an alliance against Muslim enemies.
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Learn about the life and travels of Rabban Bar Sauma, a Chinese Nestorian monk who visited Europe in the late 1280s. Find out how he became a diplomat, a teacher, and a writer of a rare account of medieval Europe.
Rabban Bar Sauma was a Nestorian monk who traveled from Beijing to France in the late thirteenth century. He carried a letter from Kublai Khan and a message of peace from the Il-khan of Persia to the pope, but faced hostility and indifference from the Christian rulers he met.
Jul 31, 2019 · Learn about the journey of Rabban Bar Sauma, a Christian monk who travelled from China to Europe in the 1280s on behalf of Kublai Khan. Discover how he tried to forge an alliance with the Pope and the kings of France and England against the Mamluks of Egypt.
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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