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Marco Khan [a] (born Marco Khanlian; [b] March 27, 1961) is an Iranian-born Armenian-American actor and stunt performer. [1] . He has appeared in numerous well-known film and television series like Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Iron Man, and 10,000 BC, as well as numerous independent and short films. Biography.
Marco Khan is a versatile actor with diverse background and experience. He has appeared in movies such as 10,000 BC, God's Not Dead, and Pirates of the Caribbean, and TV shows such as The Mandalorian, NCIS, and The Chosen.
- Tehran, Iran
- 2 min
- Actor, Stunts, Producer
- Marco Polo and Kublai Khan
- Marco Polo on Meeting The Great Khan For The First Time
- Marco Polo’s Description of Kublai Khan’s Court
- Marco Polo’s Description of Kublai Khan and His Concubines
- Marco Polo’s Description of Kublai Khan’s Sons
- Kublai Khan, Marco Polo and Beijing
- Marco Polo’s Description of Kublai Khan’s Palace in Beijing
- Marco Polo’s Description of Kublai Khan’s Palace Grounds
- Marco Polo and Xanadu
- Marco Polo on The Pleasure Park at Xanadu
Kublai Khan After a three-and-a-half year journey, Marco Polo, his father and uncle arrived in Shangdu (Xanadu), Kublai Khan's summer capital, not so far from Beijing, in 1275, when Marco was 21. Word of the Polos journey had been relayed to Kublai Khan by Pony-Express-style messengers. Envoys of the Great Khan reached the Polos in central China. T...
Marco Polo met Kublai Khan soon after arriving in Shangdu. He called the great Khan a "Lord of Lords" and "the most powerful man in people and in lands and in treasure that ever was in the world" – -and this was probably no exaggeration. [Sources: Mike Edwards, National Geographic, May 2001, June 2001, July 2001] Marco recalled it in detail on the ...
Marco Polo described great parties hosted by Kublai Khan with as many as 40,000 guests. He reported that the Khan once received "a gift of more than 100,000 whites horses very beautiful and fine" and employed 10,000 falconers, carrying gyrfalcons, peregrines, sake falcons and goshawks, and 20,000 dog handlers. He also had an unstated number of lion...
“Chapter VIII: Concerning the Person of the Great Kaan” is a physical description of Kublai Khan, and includes general descriptions of his family, his court, and his concubines. According to Marco Polo's account: “The personal appearance of the Great Kaan, Lord of Lords, whose name is Cublay, is such as I shall now tell you. He is of a good stature...
“Chapter IX: Concerning the Great Kaan's Sons” is about of Kublai Khan's twenty-two sons. According to Marco Polo's account: “ The Emperor hath, by those four wives of his, twenty.two male children; the eldest of whom was called Chinkin for the love of the good Chinghis Kaan, the first Lord of the Tartars. And this Chinkin, as the Eldest Son of the...
Marco Polo first saw Kublai Khan's new winter capital of Daidu (Beijing), established in 1264, while it was under construction. He wrote: "The new city is a form perfectly square...each of its sides being six miles. It is enclosed with walls of earth...the wall of the city has twelve gates. The multitude of inhabitants, and the number of houses in ...
Chapter X: Concerning the Palace of the Great Kaan is a description of Kublai's palace at Cambaluc (Daidu/Beijing). According to Marco Polo's account: “You must know that for three months of the year, to wit December, January, and February, the Great Kaan resides in the capital city of Cathay, which is called Cambaluc, [and which is at the north-ea...
In Chapter X also includes a description of Kublai's palace grounds at Cambaluc (Daidu/Beijing). According to Marco Polo's account: “Between the two walls of the enclosure which I have described, there are fine parks and beautiful trees bearing a variety of fruits. There are beasts also of sundry kinds, such as white stags and fallow deer, gazelles...
Xanadu (Shangdu) was established in present-day Inner Mongolia about 200 miles northeast of Beijing. Kublai Khan set up a capital with a pleasure palace there before he established Daidu. Xanadu was destroyed in 1368 and would likely have been forgotten were in not for Marco Polo's accounts of the palace and Samuel Tayler Coleridge's poem Kublai Kh...
On Kublai Khan's pleasure palace at Xanadu, Marco Polo wrote: "It is enclosed all round by a great wall with five gates on its southern face, the middle one never opened on any occasion except when the Khan himself goes forth or enters. This is the greatest palace that ever was. The roof is very lofty, and the walls of the palace are all covered wi...
Marco Khan. Actor: 10,000 BC. Marco Khan (lian) is a true citizen of the world. He was born March 27th of Armenian parents in Tehran, Iran. His father, Levon was born in Lebanon and raised in Iran where he met his wife Anna, born in Babol, Iran.
Marco Khan is an Iranian-born actor who appeared in films such as 10,000 B.C., Iron Man and Camp X-Ray. See his filmography, ratings, reviews and photos on Rotten Tomatoes.
Tomatometer®Audience ScoreTitleCreditNo Score Yet100%Mirsab (Character)No Score Yet71%Khan (Character)No Score Yet28%Apache (Character)No Score Yet66%Mujeed (Character)Marco Khan. Born: Marco Khanlian March 27 Tehran, Iran. Role: Kalil Hasan's thug. Marco Khan ( born March 27) is an actor and stunt performer who played one of Kalil Hasan 's thugs (with Thom Williams ), in Day 4: 9:00am-10:00am . Contents. 1Biography and career. 224 credits. 3Selected filmography. 4External links. Biography and career.
Marco Khan on Wikipedia. Marco Khan on IMDb. Categories: Actors. Iron Man (film) Actors. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Fantasy. Sci-fi. Marvel. Marco Khan portrayed Guard in Iron Man. Marco Khan worked again with Ahmed Ahmed and Sayed Badreya in You Don't Mess with the Zohan.
