Can we somehow link Marco Pole with Poland? :)

I feel what if he was actualy a secret decendant of Poles?

Marcopole :)

Can we somehow link Marco Pole with Poland? :)

we can

How? Was he a slav? But thats just near... I meant....absolute Pole :)

some say that he was Serb

highly entertaining. Never mind that it's nonsense

They were, yes. But Marco Polo was probably not one of them as the common census among historians is that he was born in the city of Venice itself, not in the state of Venice. If he were born in the state of Venice there is a pssblity that he might have been Serbian, however, that is unlikely.

The Statute of Korčula was first drafted in 1214. This legal document is the second oldest example of legislation among Slavs, with only the Russkaya Pravda of 11th and 12th Century Russia predating it. It guaranteed the autonomy of the island, apart from her outside rulers - Grand Principality of Raška (Serbian land), semi-independent Great Principality of Zahumlje (Serbian land) and the Republics of Ragusa (read Dubrovnik, that time Serbian land) and Venice.

According to a local tradition, Marco Polo was born at Korčula in 1254 to an established family of merchants, although there is no irrefutable proof of this claim. What is more definite however is that the Republic of Genoa defeated Venice in the documented Battle of Korčula off the coast of Korčula in 1298 and a galley commander, Marco Polo, was taken prisoner by the victors to eventually spend his time in a Genoese prison writing of his travels. However, some Italian scholars believe that he may have been captured in a minor clash near Ayas (in sources from those times: Laiazzo). The controversy over the birthplace of Marco Polo between the Venetian and Korčulan theories is the subject of debate up to the present day.

Many Serbs were italianized.

No, they were civilised. Once they have at least a 50/50 chance of not being spotted as neanderthals, they are no longer Serbs.

although there is no irrefutable proof of this claim.

That's actually the most important part of the text.

That's what I said as well.

There is no proof as such.

The fact that he was a commander of a ship, doesn't automatically mean that he's from the area.

So I guess we will never know for sure.

Another theory is that Marco Polo never went to Asia.

That he heard stories of travelling merchants who did and he just made their stories his own.

Actually I read something about that some time ago. Can't remember where, however, I will have a look at it and post it once I found it.