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Xanadu (Shangdu)

Ruins of Kublai Khan's first capital on the grassland of Inner Mongolia, later the summer capital of the Yuan dynasty. Marco Polo's description of its palace and park made the name Xanadu a byword for splendour.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1256 CE mainstream
  city planned and founded as Kaiping by Liu Bingzhong, adviser to Kublai Khan source
• 1264 CE mainstream
  Kublai Khan renames the city Shangdu and makes it the summer capital source
• 1275 CE disputed
  Marco Polo visits, c. 1275 source
• 1369 CE mainstream
  sacked and largely destroyed by Ming forces source
• 1430 CE mainstream
  site abandoned source
• 2012 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site source

Where

42.3580° N, 116.1852° E

Sources

• https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1389/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangdu

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