Koublai Khan
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Koublai Khan see Kublai Khan .
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Kublai Khan
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... of China. From 1251 to 1259 he led military campaigns in S China. He succeeded (1260) his brother Mongke (Mangu) as khan of the empire that their grandfather Jenghiz Khan had founded. The empire reached its greatest territorial extent with Kublai's final defeat (1279) of the Sung dynasty ... notably Marco Polo, ...
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