Afanasii Nikitin belonged to which country?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Russia
Afanasii Nikitin was a merchant from Russia who visited Vijayanagara in the fifteenth century and wrote about the city.
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.” |