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    Pedro Tafur (or Pero Tafur) (c. 1410 – c. 1484) was a traveller, historian and writer from Castile (modern day Spain). Born in Córdoba, to a branch of...
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    ("an honored and wealthy man in his village"). The travel narrative of Pero Tafur, written circa 1439 (about a pilgrimage to Dominic's tomb in Italy), states...
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    City: Doubleday. pp. 125. ISBN 978-0-385-26105-0. Letts, Malcolm (1926). Pero Tafur: Travels and Adventures 1435-1439. George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. Dégert...
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    Pero Tafur met Maria in November 1437 when he visited Constantinople and gave a glimpse into her daily life. During his stay at Constantinople, Tafur...
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    original on 2010-12-10. Retrieved 2007-01-23. Account of Pedro Tafur in The Travels of Pero Tafur (1435–1439), Chapter III. Lambert, Gilles (2000). Caravaggio...
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    sometimes seems as if they cover the entire ground." In 1436 the Spaniard Pero Tafur visited and left a rather fanciful account: "We went to see the Granaries...
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    Hamilton Psalter of c. 1300 (Berlin), Cormack illustration 9 Cormack:59-61 – Pero Tafur in 1437 Cormack: illustration p.60 Cormack:61 for display, 58 and illustration...
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    tra il VII e il III secolo a.C., Genova, Fratelli Frilli ed., 2007. "Pero Tafur". depts.washington.edu. "Eurostat". Circa.europa.eu. Archived from the...
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    and Adventures Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Chapter 3, Pero Tafur, digitized from The Broadway Travellers series, edited by Sir E. Denison...
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    described by Western visitors before 1453, such as the Córdoban nobleman Pero Tafur and the Florentine geographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti, the church was...
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    April 1429, John became emperor of Trebizond, succeeding his father. Pero Tafur provides a detail at variance with the account of Pseudo-Chalkokondyles...
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  • Vrhbosna in Bosnia and Herzegovina Pero or Pedro Tafur (c. 1410–c. 1484), Castilian traveler, historian and writer Pero Vaz de Caminha (c. 1450–1500), Portuguese...
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  • travelled across Europe, Morocco and the Near East. Andanças e viajes de Pero Tafur por diversas partes del mundo avidos. Afanasy Nikitin (? – 1474), Russian...
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    Pero Tafur who met the exile at Mytilene on his homeward journey, Alexander "was preparing ships to set out for Trebizond against his brother." Tafur...
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    Touring Club Italiano, Roma e Dintorni. Travels and Adventures, Chapter 3, Pero Tafur, digitized from The Broadway Travellers series, edited by Sir E. Denison...
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  • been won over by John. Alexander fled Trebizond; the Venetian traveller Pero Tafur encountered him in Constantinople around October of that year, living...
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    Catholic parts of Europe. Between 1435 and 1439, the Spanish traveller Pero Tafur visited Rhodes, and noted that the church was filled with relics, and...
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    1996, 114 pages, 18 plates Andreas G. Orphanides and P. W. Wallace, Pero Tafur and Cyprus (by C. I. Nepaulsingh), SHC, Volume IV, Albany, NY: Greece...
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    moral transgressions of the nobility, the upper classes, and the clergy. Pero Tafur, a Castilian travel writer, visited the baths in 1438 to heal an arrow...
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    of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, p. 2226, ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6 Pero Tafur Travels and Adventures 1435–1439 Routledge, 2004. p.225 Marcus Louis Rautman...
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    Don Juan of Persia: A Shiah Catholic (1926) editor with E. Denison Ross Pero Tafur travels and adventures 1435–1439 (1926) editor with E. Denison Ross Boys...
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  • Stammtafeln considers this second wife to have been a daughter of Dawlat Berdi. Pero Tafur, in his travel memoirs, records that when he visited Trebizond in 1438...
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    directed the re-edition of works of great medieval and modern travelers like Pero Tafur and the Jesuit, Bernabé Cobo, and the works of pre-Hispanic Peru from...
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  • to the cardinal Juan de Cervantes, a respected jurist and a friend of Pero Tafur. He was exiled for reasons not completely known, but may have been connected...
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  • chroniclers say that the attack on Gibraltar took place in 1436. However Pero Tafur, a generally reliable source who took part in the attack, indicates that...
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    Niccolò de' Conti to India and Southeast Asia. 1436–1439: Travels of Pedro Tafur across Middle East. 1453: Constantinople falls to the Muslim Ottoman Turks...
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    than the audio of Cuarto Poder." Meanwhile, the journalist Juan Carlos Tafur said that the Cuarto Poder audio "qualifies as a journalistic scam." Following...
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    paintings. Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. ISBN 9789186884185. Tafur, Pero (2004). Travels and Adventures 1435–1439. Oxon, UK: RoutledgeCurzon....
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  • where Yaiselle Tous achieved the title of Tercera Princesa, with Gabriela Tafur being the winner of the contest. Later, in June 2019, she was officially...
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    Did not advance Juan Tafur Eisenmayer Blue Moon 44.20 37 Eliminated Did not advance Mauricio Bermudez Jhonatan Rodriguez Juan Tafur Eisenmayer As above...
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