Shangdu

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Shangdu was the summer capital of Kublai Khan’s Yuan dynasty in China, later immortalized in Western literature as the fabled city of Xanadu.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Shangdu canonical 3
Shangdu (Upper Capital) 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf former capital
historical city
architect Liu Bingzhong
architecturalStyle Chinese
Mongol
associatedWith Kublai Khan
Mongol steppe culture
court of Kublai Khan
surface form: Yuan dynasty court
capitalOf Yuan dynasty
surface form: Yuan dynasty (summer capital)
coordinateLocation approximately 42.35°N 116.18°E
country Yuan dynasty
currentCondition ruins
describedBy Marco Polo
destroyedBy Ming dynasty
surface form: Ming dynasty forces
endTimeAsCapital 1369
followedBy Beijing as primary capital of Yuan dynasty
foundedBy Kublai Khan
governedBy Yuan dynasty
hasArchaeologicalSite yes
hasCityWall yes
hasImperialPalace yes
hasInnerCity yes
hasOuterCity yes
hasUNESCOSiteID 1389
heritageDesignation UNESCO World Heritage Site
heritageSiteComponentOf Site of Xanadu
immortalizedIn Kubla Khan
surface form: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem "Kubla Khan"
knownAs Kaiping
Shangdu
surface form: Shangdu (Upper Capital)

Xanadu
locatedIn China
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
surface form: Inner Mongolia
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Tongliao
surface form: Zhenglan Banner
locatedNear modern Duolun County
partOf Mongol Empire cultural sphere
partOfTradeRoute Eurasian overland routes
precededBy Mongol imperial encampments in the steppe
significantPeriod 13th century
14th century
startTimeAsCapital 1263
toponymLanguage Chinese
Mongolic languages
surface form: Mongolian
UNESCOInscriptionYear 2012
UNESCOSiteCategory Cultural
usedAs imperial residence
summer capital

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Xanadu inspiredBy Shangdu
Kublai Khan residence Shangdu
Shangdu knownAs Shangdu
this entity surface form: Shangdu (Upper Capital)
Toghon Temür fledTo Shangdu