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          Niccolò and Maffeo Polo

          Medieval Italian traveling merchant brothers

          Niccolò Polo (Italian:[nikkoˌlɔpˈpɔːlo], Venetian:[nikoˌɰɔˈpolo]; c. 1230 – c. 1294)[nb 1] and Maffeo[nb 2] Polo (Italian:[mafˈfɛːoˈpɔːlo], Venetian:[maˈfɛoˈpolo]; c. 1230 – c. 1309)[nb 3] were Italian[a] traveling merchants from the Republic of Venice, best known as the father and uncle, respectively, of the explorer Marco Polo.

          The brothers went into business before Marco's birth, established trading posts in Constantinople, Sudak in Crimea, and in a western part of the Mongol Empire in Asia.

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        3. Marco Polo was a wealthy merchant as well as an explorer and writer.
        4. Born into a wealthy Venetian merchant family in , Polo would go on to venture far beyond the confines of his native Europe, traversing vast and mysterious.

          5. As a duo, they reached modern-day China before temporarily returning to Europe to deliver a message to the Pope. Taking Niccolò's son Marco with them, the Polos then made another journey through Asia, which became the subject of Marco's account The Travels of Marco Polo.

          First voyage

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