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Khanbaliq - Center of the Mongol Empire Established by Kublai Khan

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The ancient city was destroyed by the Chinese and the Forbidden City was built on top of the ruins.  The Tucheng wall is one of the few remaining sections of the ruins and the precise location needs to be found. 

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Khanbaliq

Khanbaliq or Dadu (also Ta-Tu or Daidu) refers to a city which is now Beijing, the current capital of the People's Republic of China. The city was called Dadu or Ta-Tu (大都, pinyin: Dàdū, Wade-Giles: Ta-tu), meaning "great capital" or "grand capital" in Chinese, the name for the capital of the Yuan Dynasty founded by Kublai Khan in China, and was called Daidu by the Mongols, which was a transliteration directly from the Chinese.[2] It is known as Khanbaliq (汗八里),[3] also spelled as Khanbalikh[4] in Turkic languages, meaning "Great residence of the Khan", and Marco Polo wrote of it as Cambaluc, Cambuluc, or Kanbalu.

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