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  2. Xanadu - Wikipedia

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    Xanadu may refer to: Shangdu , the summer capital of Yuan dynasty ruled by Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan. a metaphor for opulence or an idyllic place, based upon Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's description of Shangdu in his poem Kubla Khan

  3. Shangdu - Wikipedia

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    ' Upper Capital '; Mongolian: ᠱᠠᠩᠳᠤ, Mongolian Cyrillic: Шанду, romanized: Šandu), popularly known in English as Xanadu (/ ˈ z æ n ə d uː / ZAN-ə-doo), was the summer capital [1] [2] of the Yuan dynasty of China before Kublai moved his throne to the former Jin dynasty capital of Zhōngdū (Chinese: 中 都; lit.

  4. List of mythological places - Wikipedia

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    Name Description Alfheim: The Land of elves in Norse mythology.: Asgard: The high placed city of the gods, built by Odin, chief god of the Norse pantheon.: Biarmaland: A geographical area around the White Sea in the northern part of (European) Russia, referred to in Norse sagas.

  5. Xanadu (Titan) - Wikipedia

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    Xanadu (often called "Xanadu Regio", though this is not its official name) is a highly reflective area on the leading hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan. Its name comes from an alternate transcription of Shangdu , the summer capital of the Yuan dynasty established by Kublai Khan and made famous by Samuel Taylor Coleridge .

  6. Shangri-La - Wikipedia

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    In a 1936 interview for The New York Times, Hilton states that he used "Tibetan material" from the British Museum, particularly the travelogue of two French priests, Évariste Régis Huc and Joseph Gabet, to provide the Tibetan cultural and Buddhist spiritual inspiration for Shangri-La. [4] [5] Huc and Gabet travelled a round trip between Beijing and Lhasa in 1844–1846 on a route more than ...

  7. In Xanadu - Wikipedia

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    In Xanadu traces the path taken by Marco Polo from the Church of the Holy 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 vial of holy oil from the burning lamps of the Holy Sepulchre , which he is to transport to Shangdu , the summer ...

  8. Inner Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    Kublai Khan's summer capital Shangdu (aka Xanadu) was located near present-day Dolonnor. During that time Ongud and Khunggirad peoples dominated the area of what is now Inner Mongolia. After the Yuan dynasty was overthrown by the Han-led Ming dynasty in 1368, the Ming captured parts of Inner Mongolia including Shangdu and Yingchang.

  9. Karakorum - Wikipedia

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    Stupas around Erdene Zuu Monastery in Karakorum. Karakorum (Khalkha Mongolian: Хархорум, Kharkhorum; Mongolian script: ᠬᠠᠷᠠᠬᠣᠷᠣᠮ, Qaraqorum; Chinese: 哈拉和林) was the capital of the Mongol Empire between 1235 and 1260 and of the Northern Yuan dynasty in the late 14th and 15th centuries.