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Ibn Battuta

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Ibn Battuta (; 24 February 1304 – 1368/1369), was a Maghrebi traveller, explorer and scholar. Over a period of thirty years from 1325 to 1354, Ibn Battuta visited much of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Iberian Peninsula. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Battuta has received more than 5,325,905 page views. His biography is available in 137 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 127 in 2019). Ibn Battuta is the 6th most popular explorer (up from 8th in 2019), the most popular biography from Morocco and the most popular Moroccan Explorer.

Ibn Battuta was a Moroccan traveler and scholar who traveled through North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Africa. He is most famous for his account of his travels in his book Rihla.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Ibn Battuta ranks 6 out of 498. Before him are Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama, and Amerigo Vespucci. After him are Roald Amundsen, Bartolomeu Dias, Hernán Cortés, James Cook, Zheng He, and Francis Drake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1304, Ibn Battuta ranks 2. Before him is Petrarch. After him are Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür, Louis I, Count of Flanders, Magnus I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Ibn al-Shatir, and Günther von Schwarzburg. Among people deceased in 1368, Ibn Battuta ranks 1. After him are Orcagna, Guy de Chauliac, Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, Blanche of Lancaster, Emperor Go-Murakami, Ilyas Khoja, and Marco Cornaro.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Ibn Battuta ranks 1 out of 264. After him are Jean Reno (1948), Hassan II of Morocco (1929), Just Fontaine (1933), Abd el-Krim (1882), Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937), Mohammed V of Morocco (1909), Mohammed VI of Morocco (1963), Ismail Ibn Sharif (1646), Nathalie Delon (1941), Alain Badiou (1937), and Serge Haroche (1944).

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Among EXPLORERS In Morocco

Among explorers born in Morocco, Ibn Battuta ranks 1. 

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