![]() In Bukhara they are eventually persuaded to move yet further east, to the greatest centre of Mongol power - the court of Kublai, the great khan, in China. They travel on to Bukhara, where they stay for two or three years. The Polo brothers are advised that their wisest course is to continue eastwards to other Mongol centres along the old Silk Road. ![]() ![]() Berke, the Muslim leader of the Golden Horde, is at war with his cousin Hulagu, the pagan ruler of Persia. They stay among the Mongols for a year, but then find their route home blocked. In 1261 they travel through the Black Sea to Sudak and then continue on to the Volga, where they visit Sarai Berke, the capital city of the Golden Horde. Two brothers, Niccolo and Matteo Polo, are Venetian merchants with interests in Constantinople and in Sudak, a Venetian colony on the coast of the Crimea. ![]()
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