Kublai Khan (23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the...

governor of Baghdad by Hulagu. At some point after Kublai Khan's accession as Khan, Guo Kan assisted Kublai Khan in the conquest of the Southern Song and ultimately...

the summer capital of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China founded by Kublai Khan (Emperor Shizu of Yuan). Upon waking, he set about writing lines of...

Mediterranean Sea. The name Xanadu references the Chinese summer city of Kublai Kan and its emperor. The history of the name is commonly interpreted to set...

is sometimes also spelled "Temuchin" in English. When Genghis's grandson Kublai Khan established the Yuan dynasty in 1271, he bestowed the temple name Taizu...

small-scale raids into Western Xia in 1205 and 1207. In 1279, the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan formally established the Yuan dynasty in the Chinese tradition, having...

that his talent should not be buried, so he recommended Liu Bingzhong to Kublai Khan, to become his adviser. During this period, he was extolled as the...

Mengu-Timur was originally nominated by Kublai Khan. But he sided with Kaidu who was a rival of the latter. Kublai only stopped him from invading the Ilkhanate...

ambitions of his own, convinces Emperor Kublai Khan that his army of a million men can conquer Japan. Kublai Khan promises Princess Kukachin (Sigrid Gurie)...

trebuchet. Because the Han Chinese commander Guo Kan fought with the Mongols under Hulagu in the Middle East, Kublai had heard of siege engines of great effectiveness...