Cambaluc

He built a new capital, which in medieval times was known as Cambaluc and is now called Peking.

Early European History Hutton Webster

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?

1492, 1922

Marco Polo tells us that in his day persons caught in the streets of Cambaluc (Peking) at unseasonable hours were arrested, and if found guilty of a misdemeanor were beaten with a stick.

Chapter 21. Tabooed Things. § 4. Blood tabooed 1922

Marco Polo tells us that in his day persons caught in the streets of Cambaluc (Peking) at unseasonable hours were arrested, and if found guilty of a misdemeanor were beaten with a stick.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

One version of Marco's book says that they took with them also the daughter of the king of Mansi, one of those Sung princesses who in happier days had wandered beside the lake in Hangchow, and who had no doubt been brought up at Cambaluc by the care of Kublai

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

Nevertheless, although Marco Polo shows less knowledge of the Chinese than one might expect from the extraordinary detail and fidelity of his observation in other directions, he must have known many of these charming and cultivated people, at Kinsai or Cambaluc, or at the city which he governed.

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

He died at the ripe age of eighty, and with his death a shadow fell over central Asia, darkening the shining yellow roofs of Cambaluc, the barren plains

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

He describes the great capital Cambaluc (Peking) in the north, and the beautiful Kinsai (Hangchow) in the south.

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

In China Giovanni de Monte Corvino, created Archbishop of Cambaluc (Peking), organized the religious hierarchy, founded monasteries, and converted to

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Especially do the travellers dwell on the public roads from Pekin or Cambaluc through all the provinces, the ten thousand Royal inns upon the highways, the two hundred thousand horses kept for the public service, the wonderful speed of transit in the Great Khan's embassages, "so that they could go from Pekin to the wall of China in two days."

Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. C. Raymond Beazley 1911