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16 unusual facts about Karakorum


Al-Kamil Muhammad

Batu agreed to hold off invading Mayyafariqin if Al Kamil Muhammad would go in person to the Great Khan Möngke in Karakorum to present his submission.

Andrey II of Vladimir

In 1247, when their father died, Andrey and Alexander went to Karakorum in Mongolia, where Andrey was appointed the next Grand Duke of Vladimir by Guyuk khan.

Ata-Malik Juvayni

He visited the Mongol capital of Karakorum twice, beginning his history of the Mongols conquests on one such visit (c. 1252-53).

Chagatai Khan

Chaghatai died in 1241, after a reign of about fourteen years, and within the same year the death of Ogedai occurred at Karakorum.

De Virga world map

On the emplacement of Karakorum, fortifications are depicted, with the mention "Mongol".

Empire of Silver

It focuses mainly on the Mongol attacks on Russia, the problems of succession and the building of Karakorum.

Heterastridium

They are mostly discoid or spherical and some forms found in the Karakorum mountains are called Karakorum stones.

Hethum I, King of Armenia

In 1254, Hethum himself traveled through Central Asia to Mongolia to renew the agreement, passing through the Turkish states of eastern Asia Minor, the Mongol camp at Kars in Greater Armenia, the Iron Gates of Derbent at the western short of the Caspian Sea, and from there across Asia to Karakorum.

Due to diplomatic relations with the Mongol Empire, Hethum himself traveled to the Mongol court in Karakorum, Mongolia, which was recorded in the famous account "The Journey of Haithon, King of Little Armenia, To Mongolia and Back" by Hetoum's companion, the Armenian historian Kirakos Gandzaketsi.

Karakorum

He compared it rather unfavourably to the village of Saint-Denis near Paris, and was of the opinion that the royal abbey there was ten times as important as the Khan's palace.

Lawrence of Portugal

A second Franciscan mission, led by Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, left Lyon on April 16, 1245 and arrived in the Mongol capital of Karakorum more than a year later.

Moncler

In 1954, Moncler quilted jackets were chosen to equip the Italian expedition to Karakorum, which culminated with the conquest of the earth's second highest summit by Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli.

Mongol conquest of Anatolia

Hearing of the disaster at Köse Dağ, Hethum I of Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia quickly made his peace with the Mongols in 1243 and sent his brother Sembat to the Mongol court of Karakorum in 1247 to negotiate an alliance with the Mongolian Emperor Güyük.

Sali Noyan

Due to the internal conflicts of the Delhi Sultanate, the Mamluk Sultan Nasir ud din Mahmud's brother, Jalal al-Din Masud, fled into Mongol territory traveled to the Mongol capital at Karakorum in 1248.

Wenceslaus I of Bohemia

When Subutai heard in 1242 that Grand Khan Ögedei had died the previous year, the Mongol army retreated eastward, because Subutai had three princes of the blood in his command and Genghis Khan had made clear that all descendants of the Khagan (Grand Khan) should return to the Mongol capital of Karakorum for the kurultai which would elect the next Khagan.

Yaroslav II of Vladimir

Two years later, he was again summoned to the east, this time by Güyük Khan in Karakorum.


Architecture of Mongolia

Prime Minister Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj appointed a working group of professionals to develop a project to build a new city at the site of the ancient capital Karakorum.

Erdene Zuu Monastery

Located in Övörkhangai Province, approximately 2 km north-east from the center of Kharkhorin and adjacent to the ancient city of Karakorum, it is part of the Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape World Heritage Site.

Kamsabhoga

Kamsa-desa (Li-yul) was the ancient city/country in Central Asia lying beyond the Karakorum range.

Parnassius staudingeri

Parnassius staudingeri is a high altitude butterfly which is found over a vast area - Pamirs, Alay Mountains, Hindu Kush, Karakorum and West Kuen-Lun.