Date | Description | Source | Reference |
13th century. | A much decorated version of a yurt (all most condom shape in profile)
in the foreground.
In the back ground are smaller tents, conical in shape with a very short straight wall section in a contrasting diagonal stripped pattern. The very top of these smaller tents is flat. |
“The tented encampment of Jenghis Khan; the warlord’s tent was always pitched to give him an unobscured view of the horizon.” Bibliothèque National, Paris/ Weidenfeld Library. | Humble, R., Warfare in the Middle Ages, London, 1989, p. 101. |
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