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Day: March 20, 2023

Before Marco Polo: William of Rubruck’s Journey to Karakorum and Nestorian Christians, 1253–1255

March 20, 2023
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William of Rubruck

After a Levantian crusade in 1253, Flemish Franciscan monk William of Rubruck ventured further east on the Silk Road by way of Constantinople and the Black Sea in search of the fabled Mongolian capital of Karakorum.