Xanadu
Xanadu was a city in Mongolia. 

It was the summer capital of Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan. In the 13th century, the Venetian explorer-merchant Marco Polo visited the Khan there. 
After the fall of the Mongolian Empire, Xanadu lay in ruins, and eventually came to be thought as nothing more than a myth. 

In 2152 on the Torothan homeworld, when Jonathan Archer used the name of the city in a game of ,  disputed his use of it, claiming Xanadu was "not a real place". Archer replied "That doesn't matter." ()

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Background information 
In a scene deleted from , Travis Mayweather also referenced Xanadu in a game of geography with Archer. The two actually used the same locations as Tucker and Archer did in "Desert Crossing", but in this scene, it was Mayweather who used Xanadu and Archer who disputed its legitimacy.

Apocrypha 
Xanadu also lent its name to a sorcerer in the 1971 Gold Key TOS comic "Sceptre of the Sun".

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