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Afanasy Nikitin

?–c. 1475 · 15th century

Afanasy Nikitin was a merchant of Tver who travelled through Persia to India between about 1466 and 1472, one of the first Europeans to describe the country. His travel notes, A Journey Beyond Three Seas, record life in the Bahmani Sultanate, where he stayed at Bidar. He died near Smolensk on his way home, around 1475.

Afanasy Nikitin
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Bahmani SultanateSocioeconomy, Summary

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Grand Principality of Tver

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