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Years: 1253 - 1253
…continues his trek with oxen and carts.
Nine days after crossing the Don he meets Sartaq Khan, ruler of the Kipchak Khanate.
The Khan sends William on to his father, Batu Khan, at Sarai near the Volga.
Five weeks later, after the departure from Sudak, he reaches the encampment of Batu Khan, Mongol ruler of the Volga River region.
Batu refuses conversion but sends the ambassadors on to the Great Khan, Möngke.
He and his traveling companions set off on horseback on September 16, 1253 on a journey of five thousand miles to the court of the Great Khan at Karakorum.
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- Flemish people
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Years: 1253 - 1253
Locations
People
Groups
- Christians, Eastern (Diophysite, or “Nestorian”) (Church of the East)
- Flemish people
- France, (Capetian) Kingdom of
- Mongol Empire
- Blue Horde, Khanate of the
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions