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Kanchanaburi (Thai: กาญจนบุรี, pronounced [kāːn.t͡ɕā.ná(ʔ).bū.rīː]) is a town municipality (thesaban mueang) in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. The town of lies to the southeast of Erawan National Park within Kanchanaburi Province, approximately 120km west of Bangkok. [ 2 ]
The Thailand–Burma Railway Centre, which gives a good introduction of the Burma Railway and its history. There are also two war cemeteries, Kanchanaburi War Cemetery and Chungkai War Cemetery. The JEATH War Museum is located near the Thailand–Burma Railway station of Kanchanaburi. Although it is called the War Museum, the museum also houses ...
The history of the site goes back to the period between 857 and 1157, a period when the Khmer Kingdom was flourishing. Records show that the town was abandoned until the reign of King Rama I. [1] The name Mueang Sing first showed in the chronicles of the reign of King Rama I (1782-1809), when it was a fortified town protecting the town Kanchanaburi.
The Kanchanaburi War Cemetery (known locally as the Don-Rak War Cemetery [2]) is the main prisoner of war (POW) cemetery for victims of Japanese imprisonment while building the Burma Railway. It is on the main road, Saeng Chuto Road, through the town of Kanchanaburi , Thailand , [ 3 ] adjacent to an older Chinese cemetery.
The town (thesaban mueang) Kanchanaburi covers tambons Ban Nuea, Ban Tai, and parts of Pak Phraek, Tha Makham, and also parts of tambon Tha Lo of neighboring Tha Muang district. Additionally there are three townships ( thesaban tambons ): Kaeng Sian, Nong Bua, and Talat Ya each covering parts of the same-named tambons , and 11 tambon ...
It is privately funded and ran by Rod Beattie, [1] an Australian who is an expert in the history of the Thailand–Burma Railway. [2] The centre is located to the west of the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, [3] and is housed in the former headquarters of the Imperial Japanese Army which was constructed by prisoners of war and Asian forced labourers. [4]
In Thailand, evidence of Middle Stone Age culture has been identified in several provinces, including Kanchanaburi, Ratchaburi, Lopburi, Chiang Rai, and Mae Hong Son. Notable archaeological sites include Tham Phra in Sai Yok District, Kanchanaburi Province, and Tham Phi in Mae Hong Son Province.
Map of the Death Railway. A railway route between Burma and Thailand, crossing Three Pagodas Pass and following the valley of the Khwae Noi river in Thailand, had been surveyed by the British government of Burma as early as 1885, but the proposed course of the line – through hilly jungle terrain divided by many rivers – was considered too difficult to undertake.