Karakorum

Karakorum (bahasa Mongol: каракорум) adalah ibu kota Kekaisaran Mongolia, meskipun hanya untuk selama 30 tahun. Reruntuhannya terletak di Provinsi Övörkhangai, Mongolia, di dekat Kharkhorin. Karakorum merupakan bagian dari Lembah Orkhon yang merupakan Situs Warisan Dunia UNESCO.

Pranala luar

• This article incorporates public domain text posted on-line by The United States Library of Congress: A Country Study: Mongolia.
• Silk Road Seattle - Karakorum and Cities along the Silk Road, posted at the web site of the University of Washington, 2004.
• Treasures of Mongolia - Karakorum, Mongolia Diarsipkan 2009-01-31 di Wayback Machine., UNESCO Courier, by Namsrain Ser-Odjav, March 1986 Diarsipkan 2009-02-14 di Wayback Machine..
• William of Rubruck's Account of the Mongols
• Picture story by German photographer Marc Steinmetz for GEO magazine
• Mongolian-German excavations (in German) Diarsipkan 2008-01-21 di Wayback Machine.