Talk:Rabban Bar Sauma
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Is the claim Sauma was Uyghur really substantiated? A (http://chass.colostate-pueblo.edu/history/seminar/sauma.htm) seminar page at Colorado State says he was a Onggud Turk, which was a Turkic tribal confederation formed in Southern Mongolia - which the Uyghurs had left already. (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9013252) Encyclopedia Brittanica says he was descended from "nomadic Uighurs", which frankly sounds odd as Uyghur people then as now were sedentary agrarians, not nomads. Anyhow, not that he couldn't have been, but wondering how that was sourced. Also, there is a book by Morris Rossabi called "Voyager from Xanadu" that centers on Rabban Bar Sauma.
[edit] Chinese origin
Is this fellow known in China, and would anyone know what Characters would be used to write his name?
