court of Kublai Khan

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The court of Kublai Khan was the opulent and powerful imperial center of the Mongol ruler of China, famously depicted in Marco Polo’s accounts of its wealth, customs, and administration.

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Label Occurrences
court of Kublai Khan canonical 3
Yuan dynasty court 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Yuan dynasty court
historical institution
imperial court
associatedWith Mongol imperial governance
Silk Road diplomacy
Yuan dynasty culture
capitalCity Khanbaliq
country Mongol Empire
Yuan dynasty
describedAs cosmopolitan
opulent
wealthy
describedBy Marco Polo
employs Central Asian administrators
Chinese officials
Mongol nobles
foreign envoys
era Yuan dynasty
followedBy later Yuan imperial court
function ceremonial center
imperial administration center
residence of the Great Khan
governs northern China
parts of the Mongol Empire
hasFeature elaborate court rituals
extensive bureaucracy
formal audiences
grand palaces
large banquets
headOfState Kublai Khan
languageUsed Chinese
Mongolian
Persian
Tibetan
locatedInTime 13th century
late 13th century
location Dadu
Khanbaliq
present-day Beijing
notableSource The Travels of Marco Polo
notableVisitor Maffeo Polo
Marco Polo
Niccolò Polo
precededBy court of Möngke Khan
religionsPresent Buddhism
Confucianism
Taoism
surface form: Daoism

Islam
Nestorianism
surface form: Nestorian Christianity
religiousPolicy religious tolerance
titleOfRuler Emperor of China
Great Khan

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The Travels of Marco Polo mainSubject court of Kublai Khan
Shangdu associatedWith court of Kublai Khan
this entity surface form: Yuan dynasty court
Il Milione describes court of Kublai Khan
Invisible Cities frameSetting court of Kublai Khan