Rashiduddin speaks of a tribe
of Utikien Uigurs living in this country. (Bretschneider, Med. Geog.
191; D'Ohsson, i. 437. Rockhill, Rubruck, 220, note.) - Karakorum was
called by the Chinese Ho-lin and was chosen by Chinghiz, in 1206, as his
capital; the full name of it, Ha-la Ho-lin, was derived from a river to
the west. (Yuen shi, ch. lviii.) Gaubil (Holin, p. 10) says that the
river, called in his days in Tartar Karoha, was, at the time of the
Mongol Emperors, named by the Chinese Ha-la Ho-lin, in Tartar language
Ka la Ko lin, or Cara korin, or Kara Koran. In the spring of 1235,
Okkodai had a wall raised round Ho-lin and a palace called Wang an,
built inside the city. (Gaubil, Gentchiscan, 89.) After the death of
Kublai, Ho-lin was altered into Ho-Ning, and, in 1320, the name of the
province was changed into Ling-pe (mountainous north, i.e. the
Yin-shan chain, separating China Proper from Mongolia). In 1256, Mangu
Kaan decided to transfer the seat of government to Kaiping-fu, or Shangtu,
near the present Dolonnor, north of Peking. (Supra in Prologue, ch. xiii.
note 1.) In 1260, Kublai transferred his capital to Ta-Tu (Peking).
Plano Carpini (1246) is the first Western traveller to mention it by name
which he writes Caracoron; he visited the Sira Orda, at half a day's
journey from Karakorum, where Okkodai used to pass the summer; it was
situated at a place Ormektua.
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