My name is Igor Boiar. I live in Vancouver, Canada. I used to attend Argyle Secondary School from 1999-2004.

e-mail: iboiar@hotmail.com

Khanbaliq or Cambuluc, ("Great residence of the Khan") is the ancient Mongol name for the city that stood at the present location of Beijing, the current capital of the People's Republic of China. It was known in the Chinese language as Dadu or Tatu, meaning "great metropolis" or "great capital". The design of Khanbaliq followed the book Zhouli, in that the rules of "9 vertical axis, 9 horizontal axis", "palaces in the front, markets in the rear", "left ancestral worship, right god worship" were taken into consideration. It was broad in scale, strict in planning and execution, complete in equipment..

Khanbaliq is where Kublai Khan's court was. Marco, Maffeo, and Niccolo Polo arrived there and stayed serving Khan for seventeen years.