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Angkor Wat (/ ˌ æ ŋ k ɔːr ˈ w ɒ t /; Khmer: អង្គរវត្ត, "City/Capital of Temples") is a Hindu-Buddhist temple complex in Cambodia.Located on a site measuring 162.6 hectares (1,626,000 m 2; 402 acres) within the ancient Khmer capital city of Angkor, it was originally constructed in 1150 CE as a Hindu temple dedicated to the deity Vishnu.
A red field surrounded by a blue band with a depiction of the Angkor Wat in white. [9] [failed verification] 1948-1970 1975-1976 Flag of Cambodia during French Protectorate (1948-1953) and after its independence from France (1953-1970) as well as Kampuchea (1975-1976) Three horizontal bands of blue, red and blue and a depiction of Angkor Wat in ...
The flag used today is the same as that established in 1948, although the older flag is sometimes said to have used a red outline for Angkor Wat while the current flag uses black specifically. Since that time, five other intervening designs have been used. Almost all made use of the image of the temple of Angkor Wat in one form or another.
The central prang of Angkor Wat temple symbolizes the mount Meru. The central sanctuary of an Angkorian temple was home to the temple's primary deity, the one to whom the site was dedicated: typically Shiva or Vishnu in the case of a Hindu temple, Buddha or a bodhisattva in the case of a Buddhist temple.
From left: US and UK editions. The covers featuring Angkor Thom Gate by French illustrator Philippe Munch, after an engraving by Louis Delaporte.. As part of the Archéologie series in the "Découvertes Gallimard" collection, Angkor : la forêt de pierre covers the rediscovery of Angkor Wat and the study of archaeological sites, objects, and documents found in the site, but not its history.
The Poem of Angkor Wat reveals the poetic potential of the ruins of Angkor Wat. This poetic potential was reflected in the works by generations of bards and poets, both Khmer and foreign, such as American poet Allen Ginsberg's "Ankor Wat", one of the most significant evocations of the Khmer temples in modern literature. [17]
The true history of Angkor Wat was later pieced together from the book The Customs of Cambodia written by Temür Khan's envoy Zhou Daguan to Cambodia in 1295–1296 [1] and from stylistic and epigraphic evidence accumulated during the subsequent clearing and restoration work carried out across the whole Angkor site. It is now known that the ...
The temple itself has no wall or moats, these being replaced by those of the city itself: the city-temple arrangement, with an area of 9 square kilometres, is much larger than that of Angkor Wat to the south (2 km²). Within the temple itself, there are two galleried enclosures (the third and second enclosures) and an upper terrace (the first ...