Dvaravati
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Dvaravati refers to a network of early historic polities in present-day central Thailand, conventionally dated from about the 6th to the 11th century; archaeological evidence, however, places the begi
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Thai head of Buddha, Dvaravati kingdom, 8th 9th century, Dayton
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Siam Confederation (Xiān)
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Xiān, rendered in Thai as Siam, is the name by which Chinese and Vietnamese records of the 12th to 14th centuries designated one or more polities in the lower Chao Phraya basin. Rather than a single c
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…plains lasted into the early 12th, coming briefly under Angkorian influence under Jayavarman VII (r. 1181–1218). Thereafter, the region entered the Xiān period, marked by the emergence of Suphannabhum, Phrip Phri, and Ayodhya, the latter reasserting control over Lavo by the 14th century. The name comes…
Relief at Angkor Wat, dated to the early 12th century, showing Siamese mercenaries led by a noble of Cheng Shan (เชงฌาล), a city that later became a major rival of Angkor.
Phrip Phri in 1196, one of the Xiān polities.