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The Khmer Empire was a Hindu-Buddhist empire in Southeast Asia, centered around hydraulic cities in what is now northern Cambodia. Known as Kambuja ( Old Khmer : កម្វុជ ; Khmer : កម្ពុជ ) by its inhabitants, it grew out of the former civilization of Chenla and lasted from 802 to 1431.
Khmer, armed with war elephants, drove out the Cham in the 12th century. The classic period or Khmer Empire lasted from the early 9th century to the early 15th century. Technical and artistic progress, greatest cultural achievements, political integrity and administrative stability marked the golden age of Khmer civilization.
The history of Cambodia, a country in mainland Southeast Asia, can be traced back to Indian civilization. [1] [2] Detailed records of a political structure on the territory of what is now Cambodia first appear in Chinese annals in reference to Funan, a polity that encompassed the southernmost part of the Indochinese peninsula during the 1st to 6th centuries.
The royal Khmer court moves to Longvek. 1593: King Sattha requested protection from the Spanish governor of the Philippines against the Thai. 1594: The Thai captured the Cambodian capital, Longvek, and installed a military governor there. 1595: Sattha died in Laos. 1596: King Preah Ram I led the Khmer army to liberate Longvek from Siamese. 1597
Historians consent that as the capital ceased to exist, the temples at Angkor remained as central for the nation as they always had been. David P. Chandler: "The 1747 inscription is the last extensive one at Angkor Wat and reveals the importance of the temple in Cambodian religious life barely a century before it was "discovered" by the French ...
Cambodia had however entered a state of decline since the collapse of the Khmer Empire and limited its offensive operations to raids. Such raids took place during the first four Burmese–Siamese wars , targeting Petchaburi , Prachinburi , Chantaburi , Nakhon Ratchasima , Nontaburi , Phra Pradaeng , and the city of Ayutthaya .
The Khmer Empire won the Battle of Siem Reap, defeating an invading Thai army in 1530. The name "Siem Reap" literally means "Siam defeated". The battle was a victory for Ang Chan I, who captured more than 10,000 Siamese soldiers.
Khmer King Ang Chan I (1516-1566) is said to have moved and founded the new capital north of Phnom Penh to Longvek on the banks of the Tonle Sap River. Trade was an essential feature, although they seem to have a secondary role in the Asian commercial domain in the 16th century, Cambodian ports did indeed develop.