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Which Continent Did Battuta Not Visit?

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Which Continent Did Battuta Not Visit?

5 Which continent did Battuta NOT visit? He visited Muslim Spain

Muslim Spain
The Caliphate of Córdoba effectively collapsed during a ruinous civil war between 1009 and 1013, although it was not finally abolished until 1031 when al-Andalus broke up into a number of mostly independent mini-states and principalities called taifas.
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in Europe, but that was all. From Quiz: Ibn Battuta. Question by author LordBehemoth.

Which place did Ibn Battuta not visit?

Thus Ibn Battuta's travels continued, with narrow escapes and dramatically varying fortunes. Eventually he learned that his ship had been seized by a non-Muslim ruler in Sumatra. He decided to go to China anyway, but stopped on the way at the Maldives, an island group 400 miles southwest off the coast of India.

How many continents did Battuta visit?

Leaving home at the age of 21, Ibn Battuta traveled the Islamic world and Far East of the 14th century CE, covering 75,000 miles (120,000 km) between 1325 - c. 1352 CE, visiting 40 countries and crossing three continents.

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