Karakorum served as the capital of the Mongol Empire ... Khan’s death in 1227, his son and successor Ögödei chose the same location to serve as the capital of the empire, per Encyclopedia ...

But Genghis Khan’s death in 1227 ultimately doomed the empire he founded. Disputes among his successors eventually split the empire into four. By 1368, all four had folded. The Mongol Empire had ...

Mongolia's former president shared a map of the Mongol Empire, which included parts of Russia. "After Putin's talk. I found Mongolian historic map. Don't worry. We are a peaceful and free nation," he ...

Genghis Khan was a 13th-century warrior in central Asia who founded the Mongol Empire, which stretched from ... and died in August 1227, possibly of bubonic plague, while waging a campaign against ...

During his travels through the Mongol empire in the 1250s, a Flemish friar described the capital, Karakorum, as an enclosed city with four gates. Now, researchers have fully mapped the city ...