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Which modern city was known as Cambaluc or Dadu in Marco Polo’s account?
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In the accounts of Marco Polo, the city referred to as Cambaluc (or Khanbaliq) and Dadu is the modern-day city of Beijing.
Established by Kublai Khan in 1272, Dadu—meaning "Great Capital"—served as the political center of the Yuan dynasty and was the site that so astounded the Venetian traveler during his visit in the 1280s.1