[DOC] [TLE] Shangdu - Wikipedia [PAR] Shangdu also known as Xanadu was the capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty 
in China, before he decided to move his throne to the Jin dynasty capital of 
Zhngd (Chinese: ; literally: "Middle Capital"), which he renamed Khanbaliq
, present-day Beijing. Shangdu then became his summer capital. ... The most 
visible modern-day remnants are the earthen walls though there is... [DOC] [TLE] Karakorum - Wikipedia [PAR] Karakorum was the capital of the Mongol Empire between 1235 and 1260, and of 
the Northern ... Under gedei and his successors, Karakorum became a major 
site for world ... his capital to Shangdu, and later to Khanbaliq (Dadu, today's 
Beijing). ... of a provincial backwater of the Yuan dynasty founded in China in 
1271. [DOC] [TLE] The Site of Xanadu, Shangdu of Yuan Dynasty, Xilingol, Inner ... [PAR] The Site of Xanadu, located in Zhenglan Banner of Xilingol, Inner Mongolia, is 
the site ... largest known in the history of the world, and covered most of modern-
day Eurasia. ... Yuan Dynasty, the Great Capital (Dadu) was created in today's 
Beijing. ... Every year from March to September, the emperor and his ministers 
would... [DOC] [TLE] KUBLAI KHAN AND CHINA'S YUAN DYNASTY (1215-1368) | Facts ... [PAR] Kublai Khan (1215-94) was the greatest Mongol ruler after his grandfather ... 
Links in this Website: IMPERIAL CHINA factsanddetails.com ; CHINESE ART .... 
Capturing the Jin capital of Zhongdu (near present-day Beijing) was more ... In 
1271, Kublai established the Yuan dynasty, which ruled over present-day 
Mongolia,... [DOC] [TLE] Khanbaliq : dfinition de Khanbaliq et synonymes de Khanbaliq ... [PAR] This article is about the city established during the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in the 
13th ... the site of modern Beijing, the current capital of the People's Republic of 
China. ... Khan decided to rebuild this city to the northeast of the old city as his 
new capital. ... from Marco Polo, or that the "Cambalu" of Marco Polo's fame is 
Beijing. [DOC] [TLE] Kublai Khan | Annoyz View [PAR] During the 13th century, the Mongols who were led by Kublai Khan, the ... 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge starts his unfinished poem Kubla Khan as In Xanadu 
did Kubla Khan, ... Later on, though the emperor shifted his capital to Dadu, in 
present day Beijing. ... Marco Polo is one of history's greatest explorers and his 
fame was... [DOC] [TLE] On the trail of Marco Polo - Wikitravel [PAR] Marco Polo owes his fame to a book which he wrote after his return. .... the Silk 
Road) to his summer capital in Xanadu somewhat Northwest of modern Beijing. [DOC] [TLE] MONGOLS CHINA AND THE SILK ROAD : July 2009 [PAR] Jul 3, 2009 ... His religious and figure paintings were all in the style of the early Chin ... have 
survived, this work serves as testimony to his fame in Yan court art. ... The 
National Library of China, Beijing ... Archeologists report new findings at 
terracotta army site ... Its capital was near Pny in modern-day Guangzhou. [DOC] [TLE] Gauging China's changing currents in 2012 - Chinese Currents [PAR] Rolls Royce arrives in Beijing with zero delivery mileage .... The rest, as they say, 
is history. ..... and that he should use his newly acquired fame to do many things 
that are .... I knew that Xanadu was somewhere in Inner Mongolia, but had no 
idea ... ride" from modern day Beijing [which was then called Dadu, or big capital]
. [DOC] [TLE] Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures - Ambleside Online [PAR] Beautiful as Venice now is, in the days of its stagnation and decay, it was a yet ..... 
He especially loved history and narratives of adventure and discovery, and it was 
...... Khan was at his summer palace at Shandu [Xanadu, modern day Shangdu], 
..... imperial hunting grounds to Kambalu [Peking/Beijing], the capital of Cathay,... [DOC] [TLE] the Bert Blog.

Question: ...of this Mongol of Xanadu fame, who founded his capital on the site of modern-day Beijing
Answer: Kublai Khan