Origins Quiz — Thursday, October 8, 2026

What name did Marco Polo write down in the 1290s, apparently garbling Mogadishu, a port on the African mainland, and attaching it to an island far to the south? Portuguese sailors landed on that island in 1500 and called it Sao Lourenco, but Renaissance mapmakers kept Polo's version.

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