William of Rubruck

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

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.

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