Lingbei (Yuan province)
| Lingbei 嶺北等處行中書 | |||||||||
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| Province of Yuan dynasty | |||||||||
| 1271–1368 | |||||||||
Lingbei in the Yuan dynasty | |||||||||
| Capital | Karakorum | ||||||||
| • Type | Yuan hierarchy | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1271 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1368 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | China Russia Mongolia | ||||||||
The Yuan dynasty ruled over the Mongolian Plateau, including both Inner and Outer Mongolia as well as part of southern Siberia, between 1271 and 1368. The Mongolian Plateau is where the ruling Mongol Borjigin clan of the Yuan dynasty came from, thus it enjoyed a somewhat special status during the Yuan dynasty, although the capital of the dynasty had been moved from Karakorum to Khanbaliq (modern Beijing) since the beginning of Kublai Khan's reign, and Mongolia had been converted into a regular province, known as the province of Lingbei (Chinese: 嶺北行省), by the early 14th century.