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Jordan Catala
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Jordan Catala of Sévérac (fl. 1280-c. 1330), also known as Jordan de Catalunya, was an Occitanian Dominican missionary and explorer in Asia known for his Mirabilia descripta describing the marvels of the East.
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In istâ Indiâ sunt insulæ multæ, et ut audivi, plus quam decem millia habitatæ: ubi sunt multa mirabilia mundi.
In this India be many islands, and more than 10,000 of them inhabited, as I have heard; wherein are many world's wonders.
Mirabilia descripta (wr. c. 1329–1338), ch. 5, sec. 5. Translated from the Latin original, as published at Paris in 1839, in the Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires, of the Society of Geography, by Col. Henry Yule: The Wonders of the East (London: Hakluyt Society, 1863), p. 28
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