William of Rubruck (Dutch: Willem van Rubroeck; Latin: Gulielmus de Rubruquis; fl. 1248–1255) or Guillaume de Rubrouck was a Flemish Franciscan missionary...
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Karakorum (redirect from Palace of Myriad Peace)
of the serpents began to gush out a fountain of alcoholic beverages into the large silver basin arranged at the base of the tree. William of Rubruck,...
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Möngke Khan (redirect from Emperor Xianzong of Yuan)
Yunnan). According to William of Rubruck, Möngke Khan was a man of medium height. Möngke was born on 11 January 1209, as the eldest son of Genghis Khan's teenaged...
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"of medium size, like us". The Tangut people I saw were tall but swarthy. The Iugurs are of medium build like our own people. — William of Rubruck The...
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Kumis (section Production of mare milk)
traveller William of Rubruck: This cosmos, which is mare's milk, is made in this wise. […] When they have got together a great quantity of milk, which...
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Batu Khan (category Khans of the Golden Horde)
the nickname of сайн (lit. 'good'), by which he was referred to by Marco Polo. William of Rubruck described him as about the height of his lord John...
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Guillaume Boucher (category Date of birth unknown)
missionary and traveller William of Rubruck reached Karakorum in 1254 on a mission from King Louis IX of France, he discovered a community of European Christians...
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Gog and Magog (redirect from War of Gog and Magog)
of Chapter 59 at Wikisource) William of Rubruck (1900). Rockhill, William Woodville (ed.). The Journey of William of Rubruck to the Eastern Parts of the...
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Prester John (redirect from Letter of Prester John)
Jackson, Peter; Morgan, David (eds.). The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck: His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Möngke, 1253–1255. London: Hakluyt...
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centuries, the Mongols launched massive invasions of the territory of Circassia. William of Rubruck, who travelled to the Caucasus in 1253, wrote that...
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