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Khanbaliq
Khanbaliq
or
Dadu
was the
capital
of the
Yuan dynasty
, the main center of the
Mongol Empire
founded by
Kublai Khan
and in what is now
Beijing
, also the capital of
China
today. It was located at the center of modern Beijing. The
Central Secretariat
(Zhongshu Sheng) directly administered the Central Region of the Yuan Empire (comprising present-day Beijing,
Hebei
,
Shandong
,
Shanxi
, and parts of
Henan
and
Inner Mongolia
) and dictated policies for the other provinces. Kublai and his successors also
claimed supremacy
over the entire
Mongol Empire
, although in practice that had
already fragmented
into a number of
khanates
since the death of
Möngke Khan
.
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