Khalzan Shireg

Khalzan Shireg is the site identified with Chinqai Balgasun, a fortified settlement of the early Mongol Empire in western Mongolia. Associated with Chinggis Khan's official Chinqai, it stood in the dry country near the Gobi Altai. Excavations have uncovered remains of buildings and a religious statue, evidence of a permanent centre established amid the empire's mobile pastoral world.