caa a22 4500 386351724 CHVBK 20180307111834.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0035869X00167887 doi S0035869X00167887 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0035869X00167887 Ptak Roderich China and Calicut in the early Ming period: envoys and tribute embassies [Elektronische Daten] [Roderich Ptak] Calicut was the most important port in southwest India during the late fourteenth and the fifteenth century. Its rulers, the Zamorins, maintained a vast network of trading relations extending from the coast of East Africa to the Indonesian archipelago and the Far East. This is amply documented in the accounts of foreign travellers, practically all of whom passed through the Malabar ports on the lengthy voyage from west to east and back. Marco Polo, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, 'Abd al-Razzāq, to name but a few, figure most prominently in a long line of writers whose reports describe various aspects of old Colychachia, as Calicut was then called by Nicolo di Conti, an Italian traveller. Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1989 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland Cambridge University Press 121/1(1989-01), 81-111 0035-869X 121:1<81 1989 121 JRA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00167887 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00167887 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ptak Roderich NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland Cambridge University Press 121/1(1989-01), 81-111 0035-869X 121:1<81 1989 121 JRA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge