five years cycling around the world on my bicycle promoting Peace in Croatia that I soon found out that my travel inspiration and countryman, Marko Polo, was claimed by others and no longer my own countryman.
             Henry S. Hart is one of those who tried to come up with Marko's true background. In his book "Venetian Adventurer: Marco Polo" he carefully describes Marco's family origins#. According to his book, Polo arrived from Sibenik, Dalmatia . Later, the family moved to Korcula which became Marco's birth town. In the 13th century, Korcula was the Dalmatian center for ship building and trading. In order to have better access to wealthy city-states on the other side of Adriatic (mainly Venice) Korcula's merchants used two names; Latin as citizens of Venice and their own Croatia
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