Kurultai

From this same root arises the Mongolian word хурим khurim 'feast', which originally referred to large festive gatherings on the steppe, but it is now used mainly in the sense of 'wedding'.

Johann Schiltberger, a 15th-century German traveler, described the installation of a new Golden Horde khan as follows[4] (quoted in):[5] When they choose a king, they take him and seat him on white felt, and raise him in it three times.

Then he must be sworn as is the custom.Kurultai were imperial and tribal assemblies convened to determine, strategize and analyze military campaigns and assign individuals to leadership positions and titles.

Most of the major military campaigns were first planned out at assemblies such as this and there were minor and less significant Kurultai under the Mongol Empire under political subordinate leaders and generals.

[6] Various modern Mongol and Turkic peoples use it in the political or administrative sense, as a synonym for parliament, congress, conference, council, assembly, convention, gathering.