United States or Trinidad and Tobago ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
His capital Cambaluc or Khanbalig "the city of the Khan" stood on or near the present site of Pekin, and was made for the first time capital of China by the Mongols. There were, according to Marco Polo, twelve gates, at each of which was stationed a guard of 1,000 men, and the streets were so straight and wide that you could see from one end to the other, or from gate to gate.
After Marco Polo has concluded his description of this palace, he gives one of that of the emperor's son and heir; then he speaks of the town of Cambaluc, the old town which is separated from the modern town of Taidu by a canal, the same which divides the Chinese and Tartar quarters of Pekin.
Cambaluc of Marco Polo, the Canton province Cassini Convention, the Catholic, Roman, controversies Central Government, organization of Chang Cheng-wu, Gen. execution of Chang Chih-tung Chang Hsun, Gen. Chang Kuo-kan Chang Tso-lin, Gen. Chang, Tsung-hsiang Chang Yao Ching and the Europe and Asia Trading Co. Chen Yi, Gen.
Aimery bent his knee and thanked him, but from the courtiers rose a hubbub of mirth which chilled his gratitude. He was aware that he sailed on very desperate waters. Among the Tartars was a recreant Genoese who taught them metal work and had once lived at the court of Cambaluc. The man had glimmerings of honesty, and tried hard to dissuade Aimery from the journey.
If he had had any hope, it was gone now, for the escort made it clear that he was their prisoner Judging from the chart of the Genoese, they were not following any road to Cambaluc, and the sight of the sky told him that they were circling round to the south.
"The kingdom is divided into thirty-four provinces, and is governed by twelve of the greatest barons living in Cambaluc; in the same palace also reside the intendants and secretaries, who conduct the business of each province.
Armenia Minor Armenia Mount Ararat Georgia Mosul, Baghdad, Bussorah, Tauris Persia The Province of Kirman Comadi Ormuz The Old Man of the Mountain Cheburgan Balkh Cashmir Kashgar Samarcand Kotan The Desert Tangun Kara-Korum Signan-fu The Great Wall Chang-tou The residence of Kublaï-Khan Cambaluc, now Pekin The Emperor's fêtes His hunting Description of Pekin Chinese Mint and bank-notes The system of posts in the Empire.
In 1307 he became the first Archbishop of Cambaluc or Peking, while subsequently no less than ten suffragans were grouped under him. Scarcely less remarkable was the organisation in Persia of the archbishopric at Sultanyeh and six subordinate sees. But this development belongs almost entirely to the following period.
What if over by the sunset there is Ocean-Sea again, true ocean and as many leagues to Asia as to Spain? What if they cannot lead us to Quinsai, Cambaluc or Zaiton, or to the Ganges' mouth, or Aurea Chersonesus, because they never heard of them, and they have no ships to pass again an Ocean-Sea? What if it is all New, and all the maps have to be redrawn?"
When Marco Polo had been at Cambaluc some time, he was sent on a mission that kept him absent from the capital for four months. Thirty miles further on he came to the town of Tso-cheu, where a large trade in sandal-wood is carried on; at ten days' journey from hence he came to the modern town of Tai-yen-fou, which was once the seat of an independent government.
Word Of The Day