ibn-Batuta

/ ˌɪbənbæˈtuːtɑː /

noun

1. ibn-Batuta1304?1368MArabTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: travellerWRITING: writer 1304–?68, Arab traveller, who wrote the Rihlah, an account of his travels (1325–54) in Africa and Asia

Example Sentences

The name of the country was probably derived from its chief city of Jenné, variously described by Leo Africanus, in the sixteenth century, as a large village; by the earlier geographers—especially Edrisi in the twelfth century, and Ibn-Batuta in the fourteenth—as a spacious and well-built city on an island in the Niger, lying west from Timbuktu.

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