The stranger on the road: Simeon from Lviv as the first known backpacker travelling to the Ottoman Empire (A narrative from a double exile: a guide through the world of Simeon, an Armenian Pilgrim from Poland to the Ottoman Empire and Italy)
2023
Abstract
Simeons' Travel Accounts could be seen as vivid description of Eastern Mediterranean and Anatolia with an emphasis on Armenian communities in these localities. Accenting important marketplaces, landmarks and historical sites, Travel Accounts became a reliable historical source similar to some respects to what the famous travelogue of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela was some five hundred years before.