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Leo Africanus Discoveries - English
URL: http://www.leoafricanus.com/leo/

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The Definitive Leo. The Moroccan Years. The Italian Years. Leo in History.

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Аль-Вазан Аль-Хасан Ибн Мохаммед - Russian
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(Лев Африканец) (1492 — ~1552) — арабский путешественник. В качестве посланника властителя Марокко побывал в Северной Африке, а также на Нигере, в Судане, Томбукту и Борну. Описание Африки, сделанное им по поручению папы Льва Х во время европейского пленения, вплоть до XIX века было основным источником сведений по Северной Африке

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Leo Africanus - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0829421.html

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Moorish traveler in Africa and the Middle East. His arabic name was Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad. Captured by pirates, he was sent as a slave to Pope Leo X. He became a Christian, adopting the name Johannes Leo, and taught Arabic in Rome. There he wrote in Arabic a description of his journeys in Africa (issued in Italian in 1526), which was for many years the only known source on the Sudan.

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LEO AFRICANUS: MOORISH MAN OF LEARNING - English
URL: http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/africanus.html

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Al-Hassan Ibn-Muhammad al-Wezzani was born in Granada in Spain in 1493 or 1494 of well educated and affluent Moorish parents. He probably preferred to be called al-Fasi, the man of Fez--the great seat of learning in Morocco to which he owed his education. As a young man, he became a soldier, merchant and ambassador. By the age of twenty-five he had crossed the Mediterranean Sea numerous times, and traveled in West Africa and Southwest Asia.

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Leo Africanus - English
URL: http://www.manntaylor.com/leo.html

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Leo Africanus was born in Granada in 1485 and died in Tunis in 1554. He was educated in Fez and travelled widely in Africa, visiting Timbuctoo twice. The following description of the town is taken from John Pory's translation of 1600 modified in places with that of Francis Moore in 1738.

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Leo Africanus: Description of Timbuktu - English
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1Up Info - Leo Africanus (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia - English
URL: http://www.1upinfo.com/encyclopedia/L/LeoAfric.html

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1465–1550, Moorish traveler in Africa and the Middle East. His Arabic name was Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad. Captured by pirates, he was sent as a slave to Pope Leo X. He became a Christian, adopting the name Johannes Leo, and taught Arabic in Rome. There he wrote in Arabic a description of his journeys in Africa (issued in Italian in 1526), which was for many years the only known source on the Sudan.

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