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Cambaluc

Cambaluc is the alternative form of Khanbalik.

Meaning of Khanbalik

Proper noun

Khanbalik

  1. (historical) The capital of the Mongolian Yuan dynasty, at the site of present-day Beijing.
    • Genghis Khan initiated Beijing's nearly 800-year dominance over the Middle Kingdom. The city's current population numbers ten million people, far more than lived here in 1215 A.D. when the Mongol warlord conquered the strategically significant power center of Yanying and built Khanbalik, his new...1999, “Beijing”, in The Book of the World, 2nd United States edition (Atlas), Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 367
    Synonyms:
    Dadu, Daidu, Ta-tu, Beijing

Forms of Cambaluc

alternative formCambuluc
alternative formCambalu

Origin of Cambaluc

From Italian Cambaluc found in the account of Marco Polo's travels, from Mongolian and East Turkish Khanbalik, City of the Khan.

Questions about Cambaluc

What is Cambaluc the alternative form of?
Cambaluc is the alternative form of Khanbalik.

Words near Cambaluc in the dictionary

  1. cambalids
  2. Cambalik
  3. cambaloid
  4. Cambalong
  5. Cambalu
  6. Cambaluc
  7. camband
  8. cambands
  9. Cambang-ug
  10. Cambar
  11. cambarid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cambaluc (page history and authors); Khanbalik (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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