Where did the traveller Ibn Battuta come from?

(A) Morocco
(B) Persia
(C) Turkey
(D) Central Asia

Correct Answer : Morocco
Question Asked : SSC Combined Graduate Level Prelim Exam. 2002, SSC Tax Assistant (Income Tax & Central Excise) Exam 2006
Explanation : Ibn battuta was a Berber Muslim Moroccan explorer, known for his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in the Rihla (“Journey”). Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands; his journeys including trips to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance surpassing threefold his near-contemporary Marco Polo. lbn Batuta is considered one of the greatest travellers of all time.
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