what country did marco polo come from?
Venice
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 In 1168 , his great @-@ uncle , Marco Polo , borrowed money and commanded a ship in Constantinople . His grandfather , Andrea Polo of the parish of San Felice , had three sons , Maffeo , yet another Marco , and the travelers father Niccolò . This genealogy , described by Ramusio , is not universally accepted as there 's no additional evidence to support it . 

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 The Marco Polo sheep , a subspecies of Ovis ammon , is named after the explorer , who described it during his crossing of Pamir ( ancient Mount Imeon ) in 1271 . 

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 Some of the first indications of where his family originated and were resident come from Venetian documents and manuscripts . In the 1280 testament of Marco Polo 's homonymous uncle it is said that the uncle previously lived in Constantinople , and that his son Nicollo and daughter Marota at the time of testament lived in family house in Soldaia ( in Crimea ) . Some scholars argued that this account could go along with the note from Il Milione that his father and uncle , Niccolò and Maffeo Polo , in 1250 stayed in Constantinople with merchandise from Venice . 

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 Marco Polo returned to Venice in 1295 with his fortune converted in gemstones . At this time , Venice was at war with the Republic of Genoa . Polo armed a galley equipped with a trebuchet to join the war . He was probably caught by Genoans in a skirmish in 1296 , off the Anatolian coast between Adana and the Gulf of Alexandretta and not during the battle of Curzola ( September 1298 ) , off the Dalmatian coast . The latter claim is due to a later tradition ( 16th Century ) recorded by Giovanni Battista Ramusio . 

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 Marco Polo ( / ˈmɑːrkoʊ ˈpoʊloʊ / ; Italian pronunciation : [ ˈmarko ˈpɔːlo ] ; 1254 – January 8 – 9 , 1324 ) was a Venetian merchant traveller whose travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde ( Book of the Marvels of the World , also known as The Travels of Marco Polo , c . 1300 ) , a book that introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China . 
