Baibalyk

Bay Balïq, the “Rich City” of Chinese records, stood on the northern bank of the Selenga. An inscription of the Uyghur ruler Gele records its construction in 757–758 and associates the city with Sogdians and Chinese. The site is identified with the ruins at Bii Bulak, where three walled enclosures survive near the river. It was one of the towns established under the Uyghur Khaganate on the Mongolian steppe.