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Xiān (Chinese: 暹) or Siam (Thai: สยาม) was a confederation of maritime-oriented port polities along the present Bay of Bangkok, [1]: 39, 41 including Ayodhya, Suphannabhum, and Phip Phli , [1]: 37 as well as Nakhon Si Thammarat (Ligor), which became Siam in the late 13th century. [2]
The temple Wat Pho was built by Rama III, known as the first university of the country. The reign of Rama III. was finally marked by a division of the aristocracy with regard to foreign policy. A small group of advocates of the takeover of Western technologies and other achievements were opposed by conservative circles, which proposed a ...
Siam, however, quickly recovered from the collapse and the seat of Siamese authority was moved to Thonburi-Bangkok within the next 15 years. [25] [27] In foreign accounts, Ayutthaya was called "Siam", [28] but people of Ayutthaya called themselves Tai, and their kingdom Krung Tai (Thai: กรุงไท) meaning 'Tai country' (กรุง ...
Thailand, [i] officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), [ii] is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, [ 8 ] it spans 513,115 square kilometres (198,115 sq mi). [ 9 ]
Ancient Siam (also known as Ancient City, Thai: เมืองโบราณ, Mueang Boran) is a museum park constructed by Lek Viriyaphant and occupying over 200 acres (0.81 km 2) in the shape of Thailand. Ancient Siam is dubbed as the world's largest outdoor museum, although it is smaller than Inhotim in Brazil, for example.
Dvaravati (Thai: ทวารวดี) was a medieval Mon political principality from the 6th century to the 11th century, located in the region now known as central Thailand, [5] [6]: 234 and was speculated to be a succeeding state of Lang-chia or Lang-ya-hsiu (หลังยะสิ่ว).
The Siamese then called this province Siam Nakhon, (later known as Siemmarat), meaning "Siamese town." At the beginning of the 20th century, the province (along with Battambang) was in turn ceded back to Cambodia (now a part of French Indochina ) in the Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1907, which replaced the 1904 version of the treaty in which the ...
Following defeat in the Franco-Siamese conflict, Siam ceded Luang Phrabang and Champasak to France in 1893 and 1904. Isan became the kingdom's northeast frontier as the buffer zone between French Indochina and Siam, with Siam becoming a 'buffer zone' between the United Kingdom and France with the Entente Cordiale. Thus began the process of ...