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3 unusual facts about Jean de Thévenot


Jean de Thévenot

In January 1659 he sailed from Alexandria in an English ship, visiting Goletta and Tunis (Tunisia) on the way, and, after a sharp engagement with Spanish corsairs, one of which fell a prize to the English merchantman, reached Leghorn (Italy) on 12 April.

Shantidas Jhaveri

According to the French traveler Jean de Thévenot (1666), Aurangzeb caused a cow to be killed in the temple premises, destroyed the noses of all idols in the temple, and then converted the place into a mosque called Quvval-ul-Islam ("the Might of Islam").

Thévenot

Jean de Thévenot (1633-1667), a French traveller and nephew of Melchisédech Thévenot.



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