 There are numerous towns and villages in the country, but Cotan, the capital, is the most noble of all, and gives its name to the kingdom. Everything is to be had there in plenty, including abundance of cotton, [with flax, hemp, wheat, wine, and the like]....  Ser Marco Polo: Notes and Addenda to Sir Henry Yule's Edition, Containing ... - Page 43by Henri Cordier, Marco Polo - 1920 - 161 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1871 - 624 pages
...journey in length. The people are subject to the Great Kaan, and are all worshippers of Mahommet.1 There are numerous towns and villages in the country,...They live by commerce and manufactures, and are no soldiers.1 NOTE 1. — "Aourent Mahommct." Though this is Marco's usual formula to define Mahomedans,... | |
 | Asia, Central - 1874 - 418 pages
...There are numerous towns and villages in the country, but Cotan, the capital, is the most noteworthy of all, and gives its name to the kingdom. Everything...by commerce and manufactures, and are no soldiers. " Pein [Pima ?] is a province five days' in length, lying between east and north-east. The people are... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1875 - 730 pages
...journey in length. The people are subject to the Great Kaan, and are all worshippers of. Mahommet.1 There are numerous towns and villages in the country,...They live by commerce and manufactures, and are no soldiers.1 NOTE 1. — " Aourent Mahommet." Though this is Marco's usual formula to define Mahomedans,... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1875 - 672 pages
...journey in length. The people are subject to the Great Kaan, and are all worshippers of Mahommet.1 There are numerous towns and villages in the country,...They live by commerce and manufactures, and are no soldiers.2 NOTE 1. — " Aoiirent Malwmmct." Though this is Marco's usual formula to define Mahomedans,... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1875 - 862 pages
...journey in length. The people are subject to the Great Kaan, and are all worshippers of Mahommet.1 There are numerous towns and villages in the country,...They live by commerce and manufactures, and are no soldiers.2 NOTE 1. — " Aourent Mahommet." Though this is Marco's usual formula to define Mahomedans,... | |
 | Sven Anders Hedin - Asia, Central - 1898 - 650 pages
..."the people are subject to the Great Kaan (ie Kublai Khan, the first Mongol Emperor of China), and are all worshippers of Mahommet. There are numerous towns...commerce and manufactures, and are no soldiers."* This brief account of the famous merchant of Venice holds good even at the present day, with the one... | |
 | Sven Anders Hedin - Asia - 1899 - 642 pages
...people are subject to the Great Kaan (ie, Kublai Khan, the first Mongol Emperor of China), and are all worshippers of Mahommet. There are numerous towns...commerce and manufactures, and are no soldiers."* This brief account of the famous merchant of Venice holds good even at the present day, with the one... | |
 | Sven Anders Hedin - Asia - 1899 - 648 pages
...numerous towns and villages in the country ; but Cotan, the capital, is the most noble of all, and fives its name to the kingdom. Everything is to be had there...commerce and manufactures, and are no soldiers."* This brief account of the famous merchant of Venice holds good even at the present day, with the one... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1903 - 918 pages
...journey in length. The people are subject to the Great Kaan,1 and are all worshippers of Mahommet.2 There are numerous towns and villages in the country,...They live by commerce and manufactures, and are no soldiers.3 of the Nalmans, who came from the banks of the Hi, destroyed the Mahomedan dynasty of Boghra... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1903 - 828 pages
...journey in length. The people are subject to the Great Kaan,1 and are all worshippers of Mahommet.2 There are numerous towns and villages in the country,...They live by commerce and manufactures, and are no soldiers.3 NOTR I. — [The Buddhist Government of Khotan was destroyed by Boglira Khan (about 980-990)... | |
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