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Kublai Khan
     
Kublai Khan
(1216-94) a Mongol emperor of China from 1259 until his death, whose grandfather was Genghis Khan. He moved the capital of China to Peking. There is a famous English poem about him called Kubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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