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Dutch

Wikipedia. Lengthy and well-hyperlinked. Also available in Waloon.

French

Tanger: L'année Ibn Batouta. Tangier celebrates 700th anniversary of Ibn Battuta's birth in 2004. This page lists events in Sweden, Belgium and and Tangier itself. Also notable are a standard short bio, with an excellent short but scholarly bibliography by Lotfi Akalay.

Le fabuleux voyage d'Ibn Battuta (short).

L'anniversaire d'Ibn Batouta en Su�de by Abdelhak Doudou, for eMarrakech. French article in Moroccan journal about festivities in Sweden. Isn't the internet great?

Maldive site, but the text is general.

German

Wikipedia. Lengthy and well-hyperlinked. Translation doesn't quite make it to the end.

Ibn Batuta's Reisen (1328-1354)

Amazon. Munich musicians publish music in honor of Ibn Battuta. Much more detail, in German, can be found on this page by a ?fan. The German Amazon says that customers who bought this also bought Johnny Cash.

Spanish

Wikipedia. Lengthy and well-hyperlinked. Translation doesn't quite make it to the end.

Portuguese: o Príncipe dos Viajantes. Long-ish.

Mini-bio.

Other

Lengthy Norwegian page by Tekst Thorbjjørn Færjøvik, with bibliography. (no translation)

Italian blurb. The translation turns "Ibn Battuta" into "Battered Ibn." How would you like your pollo? Battuta, grazie.