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Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
In 1260, Kublai Khan was elected great khan at his summer palace in Kaiping (renamed Shangdu in 1263), located in southeastern Mongolia, north of present-day Jining, Inner Mongolia.123
His election took place during a kuriltai, or "great assembly," held by his associates on May 5, 1260. This event occurred amidst a succession dispute following the death of his brother, the emperor Möngke, in 1259. While Kublai was proclaimed khan at Kaiping, his brother Arigböghe simultaneously held a separate kuriltai at Karakorum and declared himself the great khan, leading to a four-year conflict between the two.213