Great Yuan

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Great Yuan is the formal imperial name of the Yuan dynasty, the Mongol-ruled dynasty that governed China in the 13th and 14th centuries.

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Great Yuan canonical 1
大元 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese dynasty
Mongol empire successor state
historical state
imperial dynasty
alsoKnownAs Yuan dynasty
surface form: Yuan China

Yuan dynasty
surface form: Yuan dynasty of China
capital Dadu
Khanbaliq
present-day Beijing
chanceryLanguage Classical Chinese
continent Asia
countryToday China
Mongolia
courtLanguage Mongolian
currency paper money
dynasticOrderInChina follows Song dynasty
precedes Ming dynasty
endYear 1368
era 13th century
14th century
establishedByDecreeOf Kublai Khan in 1271
firstEmperor Kublai Khan
foundedBy Kublai Khan
governmentType imperial monarchy
monarchy
hasChineseName Great Yuan self-linksurface differs
surface form: 大元
hasEnglishName Yuan dynasty
hasFormalName Da Yuan
hasPinyinName Da Yuan
surface form: Dà Yuán
lastEmperor Toghon Temür
legitimizedBy Mandate of Heaven
notableRuler Buyantu Khan
Kublai Khan
Külüg Khan
Temür Khan
Toghon Temür
officialLanguage Classical Chinese
overthrownBy Ming forces
Red Turban Rebellions
surface form: Red Turban Rebellion
partOf Mongol Empire
surface form: Mongol Empire (nominally)

history of China
history of the Mongol Empire
predecessor Jin dynasty
surface form: Jin dynasty (1115–1234)

Song dynasty
Southern Song
Western Xia
recognizedAs first non-Han dynasty to rule all of China proper
religion Buddhism
Confucianism
Islam
Nestorianism
surface form: Nestorian Christianity

Taoism
Tibetan Buddhism
rulingEthnicGroup Mongol
surface form: Mongols
startYear 1271
successor Ming dynasty
Northern Yuan dynasty
surface form: Northern Yuan
territoryIncludes Tibet Autonomous Region
surface form: Tibet

most of present-day China
parts of Korea (as overlord of Goryeo)
parts of Mongolia
writingSystem Chinese characters
’Phags-pa script

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Yuan dynasty alsoKnownAs Great Yuan
Great Yuan hasChineseName Great Yuan self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: 大元