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Cambodia and Vietnam's forest cover underwent drastic reductions following the end of the Khmer Rouge government. [132] The fall of Khmer Rouge was attributed to Vietnamese troops overthrowing the government and the occupation of Phnom Penh, establishing the People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) in 1978. [133]
The Vietnamese invasions of Cambodia refers to the period of Cambodian history, between 1813 and 1845, when the Kingdom of Cambodia was invaded by the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty three times, and a brief period from 1834 to 1841 when Cambodia was part of Tây Thành province in Vietnam, undertaken by Vietnamese emperors Gia Long (r. 1802–1819) and Minh Mạng (r. 1820–1841).
The Siamese–Vietnamese War of 1833–1834 (Thai: อานามสยามยุทธ (พ.ศ. 2376 – พ.ศ. 2377), Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt–Xiêm (1833–1834)), also known as the Siamese-Cambodian War of 1831–1834, was sparked by a Siamese invasion force under General Bodindecha that was attempting to conquer Cambodia and southern Vietnam.
This left Vietnam with no male candidates to Cambodian kingship. In 1835, at the suggestion of Trương Minh Giảng, Emperor Minh Mạng created the Trấn Tây Province (鎮西) or Western Commandery over Cambodia, bringing Cambodia under direct Vietnamese rule and dividing Cambodia into thirty-three phủ or districts.
Cambodia–Vietnam relations take place in the form of bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The countries have shared a land border for the last 1,000 years and share more recent historical links through being part of the French colonial empire .
However the Vietnamese rule over Cambodia did not last long and proved draining to Vietnam's economy to maintain. [101] Minh Mạng died in 1841, while a Khmer uprising was in progress with Siamese support, putting an end to the Tây Thành province and Vietnamese control of Cambodia.
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), which had chosen to ally with the USSR, justified incursions into neighbouring Laos and Cambodia during the Second Indochinese War by reference to the international nature of communist revolution, where "Indochina is a single strategic unit, a single battlefield" and the Vietnam People's Army ...
United under strong dynastic rule, both Siam to the west and Vietnam to the east sought to achieve hegemony in the lowland region and the Lao mountains. The Siamese introduced — and Vietnam soon followed — the hostage system for Cambodian royals, who were relocated to their courts, actively undermining royal affairs and shaping future ...