Yingchang was one of the important cities in the Yuan Dynasty

Yuan Dynasty

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. It was situated on Lake Taal in modern Inner Mongolia

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The city of Yinchang was built by the Qongirat Mongols

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 in 1271. The city was the administrative seat of the Mongol prince of Lu. This square-walled city incorporated Chinese-like symmetry, wide axial streets from the gates to administrative compound in the center north area, emulating the Tang style

Tang Dynasty

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Shortly after the last Mongol Yuan Emperor

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 Toghan-Temur lost Dadu

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 and Shangdu to the Ming Dynasty

Ming Dynasty

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 in 1368 and 1369 respectively, the Yuan remnants (now referred to as the Northern Yuan) established their capital at Yingchang city. After the death of Toghan-Temur in this city in 1370, the Ming armies managed to capture the town of Yingchang, the last major city in Mongol hands in the following year, and thus brought to an end formal Mongol rule in China

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. Biligtü Khan

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 Ayushiridara fled to Mongolia, thereby making Karakorum

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the capital city of the Mongols again.

The Mongols took back Yingchang in 1374. The Ming recaptured the city in 1380.