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| Mar⋅co [mahr-koh] , c1254–1324, Venetian traveler. |
| Mar·co Po·lo (mär'kō pō'lō) See Marco Polo. |
| Po·lo (pō'lō) Venetian traveler who explored Asia from 1271 to 1295. His Travels of Marco Polo was the only account of the Far East available to Europeans until the 17th century. |
An Italian explorer of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries; one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia. He visited the court of Kublai Khan (see “Kubla Khan” under “Literature in English”), the Mongol ruler of China, and became a government official in China. His account of his travels was distributed after his return to Italy.
koʊ ˈpoʊ