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The 11 pages that link to Kurultai, each with the reason it gives.

• Mongol EmpireRelated: Such assemblies formalized leadership choices and imperial succession.

• Möngke KhanRelated: A kurultai in 1251 acclaimed Möngke as Great Khan amid contested electoral politics.

• Ögedei KhanRelated: The assembly at which Ögedei was proclaimed Great Khan formalized his succession.

• Mongol successionRelated: Princes and leading nobles assembled to endorse or contest candidates for the throne.

• Batu KhanRelated: The empire’s leadership decisions were made through this aristocratic assembly tradition.

• KhanRelated: A kurultai could confirm a claimant’s authority to rule as khan.

• BörteRelated: The assembly confirmed Ögedei’s succession after Genghis Khan’s death.

• KhaganRelated: Elite assemblies could affirm a claimant’s authority to rule as khagan.

• ToluiRelated: A kurultai formally selected Ögedei as Great Khan after Tolui’s regency.

• Division of the Mongol EmpireRelated: Rival claims required consensus among princes whose interests were increasingly regional.

• Töregene KhatunRelated: A kurultai confirmed Güyük as khan in 1246, ending her regency.