High Middle Ages · Middle East · Exploration
1172
Benjamin of Tudela completes his travels
1172
The Jewish traveler from the Kingdom of Navarre returned home to Spain after a decade-long journey through the Mediterranean basin, the Crusader states, Mesopotamia, Persia, and possibly as far as the borders of India and China. His remarkable Itinerary, meticulously cataloging Jewish communities and local conditions from Barcelona to Baghdad, remains one of the most vivid and historically reliable travel accounts of the entire twelfth-century world.
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.