Ibn Battuta - Places Visited By Ibn Battuta

Places Visited By Ibn Battuta

Over his lifetime Ibn Battuta traveled over 73,000 miles (117 500 km) and visited the equivalent of 44 modern countries, here is a list.

Arab Maghreb

  • Tangier
  • Fes
  • Marrakech
  • Tlemcen (Tilimsan)
  • Miliana
  • Algiers
  • Djurdjura Mountains
  • Béjaïa
  • Constantine - Named as Qusantînah.
  • Annaba - Also called Bona.
  • Tunis - At that time, Abu Yahya (son of Abu Zajaria) was the sultan of Tunis.
  • Sousse - Also called Susah.
  • Sfax
  • Gabès
  • Tripoli

Arab Mashriq

  • Cairo
  • Alexandria
  • Damietta
  • Jerusalem
  • Bethlehem
  • Hebron
  • Damascus
  • Latakia
  • Egypt
  • Syria
  • Medina - Visited the tomb of Prophet Muhammad.
  • Jeddah
  • Mecca - Performed the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
  • Rabigh - City north of Jeddah on the Red Sea.
  • Oman
  • Dhofar
  • Hajr (modern-day Riyadh)
  • Bahrain
  • Al-Hasa
  • Strait of Hormuz
  • Yemen
  • Qatif

Spain

  • Granada
  • Valencia

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Europe

  • Konya
  • Antalya
  • Bulgaria
  • Azov
  • Kazan
  • Volga River
  • Constantinople

Central Asia

  • Khwarezm and Khorasan (now Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Balochistan (now Pakistan) and Afghanistan)
  • Bukhara and Samarqand
  • Pashtun areas of eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan (Pakhtunkhwa)

South Asia

  • North India
  • Sindh (Pakistan)
  • Multan
  • Delhi
  • Present day Uttar Pradesh
  • Present day Gujarat
  • Maharashtra
  • Kozhikode
  • Malabar
  • Bengal (now Bangladesh and West Bengal)
  • Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh visited the area on his way from China.
  • Meghna River near Dhaka
  • Sylhet met Sufi Shaikh Hazrat Shah Jalal.
  • Maldives
  • Sri Lanka - Known to the Arabs of his time as Serendip. Battuta visited the Jaffna kingdom and Adam's Peak.

China

  • Quanzhou - as he called in his book the city of donkeys
  • Hangzhou — Ibn Battuta referred to this city in his book as "Madinat Alkhansa" مدينة الخنساء. He also mentioned that it was the largest city in the world at that time; it took him three days to walk across the city.
  • Beijing - Ibn Battuta mentioned in his journey to Beijing how neat the city was.

Southeast Asia

  • Burma (Myanmar)
  • Sumatra Indonesia
  • Malay Peninsula Malaysia
  • Philippines - Ibn Battuta visited the Kingdom of Sultan Tawalisi, Tawi-Tawi, the country's southernmost province.

Somalia

  • Mogadishu
  • Zeila

Swahili Coast

  • Kilwa
  • Mombasa

Mali Empire and West Africa

  • Timbuktu
  • Gao
  • Takedda

Mauritania

  • Oualata (Walata)

During most of his journey in the Mali Empire, Ibn Battuta travelled with a retinue that included slaves, most of whom carried goods for trade but would also be traded as slaves. On the return from Takedda to Morocco, his caravan transported 600 female slaves, suggesting that slavery was a substantial part of the commercial activity of the empire.

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