Презентация на тему Afanasy Nikitin

a commercial trip to India. He travelled down the Volga River,

reached Derbent, then Baku and later Persia proper by crossing the Caspian Sea. He lived in Persia for one year. In the spring of 1469, Nikitin arrived at the city of Ormus and then, crossing the Arabian Sea, reached the sultanate of Bahmani, where he would live for 3 years.

Fartak, Somalia and Trabzon, and in 1472 arrived at Feodosiya by crossing

the Black Sea. On his way to Tver, Nikitin died not far from Smolensk in the autumn of that year.

India, its social system, government, military (he witnessed war-games featuring war

elephants), its economy, religion, lifestyles, and natural resources. His resesrch provides a valuable source of information about India at that time.

as The Journey Beyond Three Seas (Khozheniye za tri morya).