• Thumbnail for Silk Road
    Silk Road (redirect from The Silk Route)
    political centres strung along the Silk Road (Beijing) in North China, Karakorum in central Mongolia, Sarmakhand in Transoxiana, Tabriz in Northern Iran...
    120 KB (13,821 words) - 09:47, 16 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Juanito Oiarzabal
    Jurgalski (PDF download) 8000ers.com, Lhotse Summits! K2 climb - K2 and Karakorum by climbers, news Archived 2006-12-14 at the Wayback Machine FCG International...
    13 KB (1,449 words) - 12:56, 21 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Kublai Khan
    monk in northern China, to his ordo in Mongolia. When he met Haiyun in Karakorum in 1242, Kublai asked him about the philosophy of Buddhism. Haiyun named...
    100 KB (11,280 words) - 09:23, 17 April 2025
  • confer with Baldwin of Hainaut, who had recently returned from a trip to Karakorum, the capital of the Mongol Empire, on behalf of Baldwin II, Latin Emperor...
    18 KB (2,012 words) - 21:55, 31 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of ski descents of eight-thousanders
    Pierre-Marcel Favre. ISBN 2828901297. gripped (2023-07-21). "Climbers Ski Famous Karakorum Peaks". Gripped Magazine. Retrieved 2024-07-05. Golob, Janez; Tomazin...
    45 KB (1,543 words) - 16:42, 28 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for China–France relations
    encountered the French silversmith Guillaume Bouchier in the Mongol city of Karakorum. Present-day relations are marked by both countries' respective regional...
    49 KB (4,823 words) - 19:10, 22 March 2025
  • supplemental oxygen. Karl's second eight-thousander was Gasherbrum II, in Karakorum, with Hans Schell in 1979. In 1980 Karl's attempt, with Hans Martin Götz...
    6 KB (646 words) - 05:14, 6 March 2025
  • Ghirardini, première ascension et première solitaire du Mitre Peak, 6010m, Pakistan, Karakorum. on his blog Paul Tamm Chutine Peak, Owens Peak AAJ Vol...
    144 KB (3,887 words) - 22:51, 8 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Jules Jacot-Guillarmod
     212-227 Six mois dans l'Himalaya, le Karakorum et l'Hindu-Kush: voyages et explorations aux plus hautes montagnes du monde, Neuchâtel, W. Sandoz, 1904 Vers...
    10 KB (1,407 words) - 04:42, 7 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for George Lowe (climber)
    with Michael Kennedy. Ascent time 6 days. 1978 North Ridge, Latok I, Karakorum Range, Pakistan. Attempt with Michael Kennedy, Jim Donini and Jeff Lowe...
    14 KB (1,306 words) - 00:28, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Proshyan dynasty
    attitudes to the Mongols were hostile. Meanwhile, on his return from Karakorum (1255), Hethum I persuaded Bohemond VI, Prince of Antioch, to side with...
    41 KB (4,551 words) - 06:08, 20 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Egyptian Armed Forces
    MiG-29M/M2 deliveries. For training, the EAF fields Grob G-115 and K-8 Karakorum aircraft, and has developed UAV capabilities through various private sector...
    86 KB (8,952 words) - 22:07, 11 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Loulan Kingdom
    Tucker, Jonathan (18 December 2013). The Silk Road – China and the Karakorum Highway: A Travel Companion. I.B.Tauris. p. 162. ISBN 978-1780763569....
    41 KB (4,786 words) - 22:15, 20 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Mongol invasions of the Levant
    Mamluks. However, Möngke died in late 1259, requiring Hulagu to return to Karakorum to engage in the councils on who the next Great Khan would be. Hulagu...
    32 KB (3,967 words) - 00:14, 16 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for History of the Middle East
    regional military leader Hulegu Khan had to return to the Mongol capital Karakorum for the election of a new khagan. His absence resulted in the first defeat...
    178 KB (19,914 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Andronovo culture
    in the Near East, or south of the region between Kopet Dag and Pamir-Karakorum. Mallory acknowledges the difficulties of making a case for expansions...
    64 KB (7,151 words) - 09:22, 6 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Riccardo Cassin
    expeditions himself, including the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV in the Karakorum Range by Walter Bonatti and Carlo Mauri on 6 August 1958 and an expedition...
    11 KB (1,374 words) - 05:36, 14 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Golden Horde
    Batu sent Yaroslav II, Andrey II of Vladimir and Alexander Nevsky to Karakorum in Mongolia in 1247. Yaroslav II never returned and died in Mongolia....
    130 KB (16,983 words) - 15:06, 16 April 2025
  • nominated by Genghis Khan. Ogedei Khan made Karakorum on the river Orkhon the capital of the Mongol Empire. Karakorum had been a military garrison of Genghis...
    124 KB (16,663 words) - 17:55, 17 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Uyghurs
    and religion are closer to the original culture of the original Uyghur Karakorum state than is the culture of the modern Uyghur people of Xinjiang. Linguist...
    214 KB (21,457 words) - 02:56, 9 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Timeline of Chinese history
    Khutughtu Khan Kusala crowned himself emperor of the Yuan dynasty in Karakorum with the support of the Chagatai Khanate. 3 April Tugh Temür abdicated...
    191 KB (860 words) - 13:12, 15 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Central Karakoram National Park
    BirdLife International. Expeditions come each year to this area of the Karakorum to ascend the massive peaks, climb rocky crags and big sheer rock walls...
    12 KB (1,272 words) - 16:18, 18 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Xinjiang
    marks the Xinjiang-Kyrgyzstan border at the Torugart Pass (3752 m). The Karakorum highway (KKH) links Islamabad, Pakistan with Kashgar over the Khunjerab...
    255 KB (21,189 words) - 10:10, 14 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Piolets d'Or
    (Sanjači zlatih jam) of K7 West (1,600m, VI/5, M5, A2, 6-days) in the Karakorum, by Slovenian climbers Nejc Marcic and Luka Strazar. "Special mention"...
    59 KB (6,526 words) - 15:56, 10 March 2025
  • China durch die WŸsten Gobi und Taklamakan Ÿber den Karakorum Highway nach Pakistan (in German). DuMont Reiseverlag. p. 258. ISBN 978-3-7701-5243-8. Millward...
    164 KB (16,567 words) - 21:33, 18 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Ayyubid dynasty
    Anatolia in 1244. An-Nasir Yusuf sent an embassy to the Mongol capital Karakorum in 1250, shortly after assuming power. These understandings did not last...
    129 KB (15,884 words) - 17:02, 9 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Slavery in medieval Europe
    enslaved skilled individuals, women and children and marched them to Karakorum or Sarai, whence they were sold throughout Eurasia. Many of these slaves...
    111 KB (13,816 words) - 20:34, 12 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Wildlife of China
    range of the snow leopard extends across the Himalayas, Tibetan Plateau, Karakorum Mountains, and Tian Shan in western China. The clouded leopard occurs...
    211 KB (21,477 words) - 23:06, 15 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for China–Iran relations
    to mud huts near the Kerulun river by Han Chinese farmers in 1247 near Karakorum, as seen by Zhang Dehui. Han Chinese made up 70% of herders in Mongolia...
    100 KB (11,143 words) - 05:38, 7 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Kirgizjangal Pass
    Wang Ping; Wu Yuezhong; Du Wei; Li Shanglin; Chen Denghui; Zhao Xiaojian (2015). "Generality on Metallogenic Regularity of Karakorum Metallogenic Belt in...
    11 KB (1,085 words) - 05:09, 6 April 2025