Hangzhou 杭州

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Hangzhou was described by Odoric of Pordenone as "the greatest and noblest city, and the finest for merchandise, that the world contains".

- quoted in Igor de Rachewiltz, Papal Envoys of the Great Khans (London: Faber & Faber, 1971), p. 182.