Rabban Bar Sauma
c. 1220–1294
Monk from China who traveled west as far as Paris as an envoy of the Mongols.
- Known as
- Traveler
- Category
- Explorers
- Born
- c. 1220, Zhongdu
- Died
- 1294, Baghdad
Alive at the same time as Rabban Bar Sauma
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