In early Philippine history, the Tagalog Bayan ("country" or "city-state") of Maynila (Filipino: Bayan ng Maynila; Baybayin: ᜊᜌᜈᜋᜈᜒᜎ) was a major Tagalog city-state on the southern part of the Pasig River delta, where the district of Intramuros currently stands.. Historical accounts indicate that the city-state was led by sovereign rulers who were referred to with the title of ...

The Principality of Zeta (Serbian: Кнежевина Зета, romanized: Kneževina Zeta) is a historiographical name for a late medieval principality located in the southern parts of modern Montenegro and northern parts of modern Albania, around the Lake of Skadar.It was ruled by the families of Balšić, Lazarević, Branković and Crnojević in succession from the second half of the …

Ibn Battuta (1304 – 1368 or 1369) was a Moroccan explorer.He is known for the account of his journeys called the Rihla ("Voyage"). He travelled for nearly 30 years and covered most of the Islamic world.He also explored West Africa, Southern and Eastern Europe, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China.This distance was more than Marco Polo travelled; about …