marco polo

listen to the pronunciation of marco polo
Turkish - Turkish
ıtalo Calvino'nun Görünmez Kentler adlı kitabının da başkahramanı
English - English
Game played (usually in a swimming pool) where one person runs or swims around blindly yelling "Marco" and everyone else must respond with "Polo" while the person who is "it" tries to locate them. See
A traveler
Polo, Marco. an Italian traveller whose writings gave Europeans their first knowledge of life in the Far East. He went to India, southeast Asia, and China, and spent several years working for the Chinese emperor Kublai Khan (?1254-1324). born 1254, Venice or Curzola, Venetian Dalmatia died Jan. 8, 1324, Venice Venetian merchant and traveler who journeyed from Europe to Asia (1271-95). Born into a Venetian merchant family, he joined his father and uncle on a journey to China, traveling along the Silk Road and reaching the court of Kublai Khan 1274. The Polos remained in China for about 17 years, and the Mongol emperor sent Marco on several fact-finding missions to distant lands. Marco may also have governed the city of Yangzhou (1282-87). The Polos returned to Venice in 1295, after sailing from eastern China to Persia and then journeying overland through Turkey. Captured by the Genoese soon after his return, Marco was imprisoned along with a writer, Rustichello, who helped him to write the tale of his travels. The book, Il milione, was an instant success, though most medieval readers considered it an extravagant romance rather than a true story
{i} (1254-1324) Italian merchant and explorer from Venice, one of the first European explorers to travel across Asia
Polo: Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324)

Related Terms

Marco Polo Bridge Incident
Conflict in 1937 between Chinese and Japanese troops near the Marco Polo Bridge outside Beijing. The incident was a culmination of the growing tensions between the two sides increasing Japanese aggression and Chinese reaction against it after Japan had occupied northeastern China and established its puppet state of Manchukuo in 1931. The skirmish expanded into a general war between Japan and China
marco polo sheep
Asiatic wild sheep with exceptionally large horns; sometimes considered a variety of the argali (or Ovis ammon)
marco polo

    Hyphenation

    Mar·co Po·lo

    Turkish pronunciation

    märkō pōlō

    Pronunciation

    /ˈmärkō ˈpōlō/ /ˈmɑːrkoʊ ˈpoʊloʊ/
Favorites
More...
Clear