High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pndapetzim is a fictitious city depicted in Umberto Eco`s Baudolino. Pndapetzim is a city somewhere in Asia, hundreds of days to the east of Armenia. Pndapetzim is the entrance to the Kingdom of Prester John. It is located in a relatively fertile land, cultivated with olive trees and fruit trees, and is bound by a mountainous landscape that means Pndapetzim is the only way to enter Prester John`s kingdom. Pndapetzim is ruled by Deacon John, Prester John`s governor of the city.