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Dadu (other)
Dadu may refer to: Places *Dadu or Khanbaliq, capital of the Yuan dynasty; in modern Beijing *Dadu, Sirsa, a village in Haryana, India *Dadu District, Sindh, Pakistan **Dadu, Pakistan, a town in Dadu District **Dadu railway station (Pakistan) **Dadu Taluka *Dadu, Taichung, Taiwan **Dadu Plateau **Dadu railway station (Taichung) **Kingdom of Middag, also known as the Kingdom of Dadu Rivers *Dadu River, a tributary of the Yangtze, in Sichuan province, China *Dadu River (Taiwan), also known as the "Wu River" People *Dadu Dayal (1544–1603), Indian devotional poet-guru *Dadu Mahendranath Singh (fl. 1951–1957), Indian politician *Sergiu Dadu (born 1981), Moldovan footballer Other uses *Dadu cricket team, based in Dadu, Pakistan *Amarjeet Kapoor "Dadu", fictional character in the 2016 Indian film ''Kapoor & Sons'', played by Rishi Kapoor {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khanbaliq
Khanbaliq or Dadu of Yuan () was the winter capital of the Yuan dynasty of China in what is now Beijing, also the capital of the People's Republic of China today. It was located at the center of modern Beijing. The Secretariat 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 following the death of Möngke (Kublai's brother and predecessor) in 1259. Over time the unified empire gradually fragmented into a number of khanates. Khanbaliq is the direct predecessor to modern Beijing. Several stations of Line 10 and Line 13 are named after the gates of Dadu. Name The name Khanbaliq comes from the Mongolian and Old Uyghur words ''khan'' and ''balik'' ("town", "permanent settlement"): "City of the Khan". It was actually in use among the Turks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
