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Zipangu
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Italian
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Proper noun
Zipangu m
- alternative form of Cipango
- c. 1300 [c. 1298], Marco Polo et al., “Dell'isola di Zipangu [About the isle of Japan]” (chapter 155), in Milione [Million], translation of Le divisement dou monde by Marco Polo and Rustichello da Pisa (in Old French); republished as Antonio Lanza, editor, Il Milione di Marco Polo, L'Unità - Editori Riuniti, 1982:
- Zipangu è una isola in levante, ch’è ne l’alto mare 1.500 miglia.
- [original: Cypingu est une isle a levant qui est longe de tere en aut mer .m.d. miles. (Franco-Venetian)]
- Japan is an island in the East, 1,500 miles away at sea.
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