Shangdu (redirect from Xanadu, China)
Shangdu (Chinese: 上都; lit. 'Upper Capital'; Mandarin pronunciation: [ʂɑ̂ŋ tú]; Mongolian: ᠱᠠᠩᠳᠤ Шанду, Šandu), more popularly known as Xanadu (/ˈzænəduː/...
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nightclub in the film, which takes its name from Xanadu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty in China. The city appears in Kubla Khan by Samuel...
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Sepulchre in Jerusalem to the site of Shangdu, famed as Xanadu in English literature, in Inner Mongolia, China. The book begins with William Dalrymple taking a...
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the Xanadu Gun, so called because it was discovered in the ruins of Xanadu (Shangdu), the summer palace of the Yuan dynasty in Inner Mongolia, China. The...
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Sino-Japanese war. Xanadu / Shangdu (上都; Shàngdū; 'Upper Capital'), located northwest of present-day Dolon Nor in Inner Mongolia, China, was the summer capital...
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Xanadu Quantum Technologies is a Canadian quantum computing hardware and software company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The company develops cloud...
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Wutaishan Dengfeng Chishui Langshan Taining Danxia Longhu Jianglang West Lake Xanadu Chengjiang Tian Shan Honghe Laosicheng Tangya Hailongtun Huashan Shennongjia...
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to man Down to a sunless sea. The play featured the mythical Chinese/Mongol city of Xanadu, which is also a color associated with the Yuan dynasty. The...
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of the Manzanera. Xanadu is built over the coastal cliff of Calpe facing the Mediterranean Sea. The name Xanadu references the Chinese summer city of Kublai...
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the Heilongjiang hand cannon dated to 1288, and the Xanadu Gun dated to 1298. However, only the Xanadu gun contains an inscription bearing a date of production...
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Kubla Khan (redirect from In Xanadu Did Kubla Khan)
begins with a fanciful description of the origin of Kublai Khan's capital Xanadu (lines 1–2). It is described as being near the river Alph, which passes...
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Inner Mongolia (redirect from Nei Mongol Autonomous Region, China)
established the Yuan dynasty. Kublai Khan's summer capital Shangdu (aka Xanadu) was located near present-day Dolonnor. During that time Ongud and Khunggirad...
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Kublai Khan's summer palace and garden at Xanadu. The Venetian traveler Marco Polo is believed to have visited Xanadu in about 1275, and described the garden...
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restaurants such as Betelnut, Xanadu, and Shanghai 1930, as an effort to "educate" San Francisco on "what real Chinese cuisine is". China Live was inspired by...
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List of mythological places Sagala, capital of the Indo-Greek Kingdom Xanadu Shambhala Himavanta El Dorado Hilton, James (1933). Lost Horizon. Macmillan...
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Marco Polo (category Venetian expatriates in China)
ISBN 978-0-618-52266-8 Bergreen, Laurence (2007), Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-307-26769-6 Power, Eileen...
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Kublai Khan (redirect from Emperor Yuan Shi Zu of China)
capital was in Shangdu (Chinese: 上都; lit. 'Upper Capital', also called Xanadu, near what today is Dolon Nor). To unify China, Kublai began a massive offensive...
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Temür Khan (redirect from Emperor Chengzong of Yuan China)
Богдоос Лигдэн Хутаг хүртэл 36 хаад Man, John (2006). Kublai Khan: From Xanadu to Superpower. London, England: Bantam Books. ISBN 9780553817188. Thackston...
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Huochong (category Weapons of China)
is a bronze hand cannon bearing an inscription dating it to 1298 (see Xanadu gun). By the time of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) two types of huochong...
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consequences for the modern world of Kublai's conquest of all China. Also in 2014, Xanadu: Marco Polo and Europe's Discovery of the East was acquired by...
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Love" (1978), "Twist of Fate" (1983) and, from the 1980 film Xanadu, "Magic" and "Xanadu" (with the Electric Light Orchestra). With over 100 million records...
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Liu Yuxin (singer) (category CS1 Chinese (China)-language sources (zh-cn))
Her album "Epsilon" and "Xanadu" tops Chinese billboards. Xin is also the very first female captain of Street Dance of China (season 5). Xin first gained...
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Rabban Bar Sauma (redirect from The monks of kublai khan emperor of china)
St Sever). Rossabi, Morris (1992). Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the first journey from China to the West. Kodansha International Ltd. ISBN 4-7700-1650-6...
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Hand cannon (category CS1 Chinese-language sources (zh))
dynasty carried Chinese cannons to Java during their 1293 invasion. The oldest extant hand cannon bearing a date of production is the Xanadu Gun, which contains...
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Summer capital (section China)
reduces the imperative to periodically relocate to summer capitals. Shangdu (Xanadu) was an "Upper Capital" during Kublai Khan's reign in the 13th century....
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Military of the Yuan dynasty (category 13th century in China)
province of its discovery, Heilongjiang, in northeastern China. It is small and light like the Xanadu gun, weighing only 3.5 kilograms, 34 cm (Needham says...
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(Translation) Kalata, Kurt. "Xanadu". Hardcore Gaming 101. Retrieved 7 September 2011. Gifford, Kevin (3 June 2010). "Xanadu Scenario II". MagWeasel.com...
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Paiza (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
Bergreen Marco Polo: from Venice to Xanadu, p.341 George Lane Genghis Khan and Mongol rule, p.34 John Man Xanadu: Marco Polo and Europe's Discovery of...
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Plain Blue Banner, Inner Mongolia (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
province to the south. It is under the administration of Xilin Gol League. Xanadu or Yuan Shangdu, one of the capitals of the Yuan dynasty, was located here...
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of Xilin Gol league, Inner Mongolia, China Shangdu County (商都), a county of Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China Xanadu (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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