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Ordu is a port city in Turkey. Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 A port is a facility at the edge of an ocean, river, or lake for receiving ships and transferring cargo and persons to them. ... City lights from space. ...


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Mausoleum of Genghis Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (772 words)
The mausoleums were protected by the Manchu Qing Empire, but the chaos of the Warlords Era, World War II, and the Chinese Civil War that followed the fall of the Qing Dynasty brought disruption to the Ordus.
The influx of Han Chinese immigrants and the agarian lifestyle destroyed the pastoral economy of the Ordus.
During and after World War II the mausoleum was moved away from the front and came to stay for several years in Gansu and Qinghai.
Jinong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (171 words)
He served the mausoleum of Chinggis Khan (naiman chaghaan ger lit.
Those who served to the mausolem was called the Ordus and Jinong came to mean the highest priest of the portable mausoleum.
The Ordus lived on the Kerulen river but later moved to what is now called Ordos.
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