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Duolun (;,
Doloon nuur,
seven lakes; also:
To-lun,
Dolon Nor,
Dolonnur), is a town of the
Xilin Gol League in the
Inner Mongolia Autonomous region,
China. (Location: .) It is of historical importance because the remnants of
Xanadu, the summer capital of
Kubilai Khan and the following Mongol emperors of the
Yuan Dynasty (
13th and
14th century), are located some 17 miles north-west of the modern town. Beginning in the
17th century, the Manchu emperors of the
Qing Dynasty developed the city as a religious center.
A 1911 description of the city reads as follows: "The town proper almost exclusively occupied by Chinese, is about a mile in length by half a mile in breadth, has narrow and dirty streets, and contains a population of about 26,000. Unlike the ordinary Chinese town of the same rank, it isn't walled. A busy trade is carried on between the Chinese and the Mongolians, who bring in their cattle, sheep, camels, hides and wool to barter for tea, tobacco, cotton and silk. At some distance from the
Chinese town lies the Mongolian quarter, with two groups of lama temples and villages occupied by about 2300 priests. Dr Williamson (Journeys in North China, 1870) described the chief temple as a huge oblong building with an interior not unlike a Gothic church. Lamamiao is the seat of a manufactory of bronze idols and other articles of ritual, which find their way to all parts of
Mongolia and
Tibet. The craftsmen work in their own houses."
In 1933 the city was the object of fighting between the Japanese and their Manchukuoan puppet troops and the
Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Army.
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