![]() ![]() 2 Iraq and PersiaOn 17 November 1326, following a month spent in Mecca, Ibn Battuta joined a large caravan of pilgrims returning to Iraq across the Arabian Peninsula.He journeyed more than 75,000 miles (121,000 km), a figure unsurpassed by any individual explorer until the coming of the Steam Age some 450 years later. Ibn Battuta is considered one of the greatest travellers of all time. Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands his journeys including trips to the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance surpassing threefold his near-contemporary Marco Polo. ![]()
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