Which of the following travellers visited Vijayanagara in the 15th century?
A. Nicolo de Conti
B. Duarte Barbosa
C. Afanasii Nikitin
D. Fernao Nuniz
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A, C only
A. Nicolo de Conti Correct. An Italian trader who visited Vijayanagara in the fifteenth century.
B. Duarte Barbosa Incorrect. He came from Portugal in the sixteenth century.
C. Afanasii Nikitin Correct. A merchant from Russia who visited the city in the fifteenth century.
D. Fernao Nuniz Incorrect. Like Barbosa and Domingo Paes, he came from Portugal in the sixteenth century.
NCERT (2026-27): “3. Vijayanagara … Finding out about the city Several travellers visited the city and wrote about it. Notable among their accounts are those of an Italian trader named Nicolo de Conti, an ambassador named Abdur Razzaq sent by the ruler of Persia, a merchant named Afanasii Nikitin from Russia, all of whom visited the city in the fifteenth century, and those of Duarte Barbosa, Domingo Paes and Fernao Nuniz from Portugal, who came in the sixteenth century.” |