Chên Li Fu was a short-lived polity on the northern shore of the Gulf of Siam, west of Chenla, known almost entirely from Chinese records of the years around 1200. It has been located in the Phraek Si
Ruins at Mueang Sing Historical Park in the western Menam valley, dating to the late 12th–early 13th century and showing strong Angkorian Bayon-style influence.
Aerial view of an ancient site at Nong Chaeng village, Don Chedi, Suphan Buri province, photographed in 1953 and proposed as a regional centre of Chên Li Fu.
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
Suvarnapura Kingdom
…modern Chanthaburi) to the south-east and Tambralinga to the south. The polity emerged from the political fragmentation that followed the decline of Dvaravati, when authority in the Menam valley passed to a series of competing regional centres. Chinese sources record embassies from Chên Li Fu in 1200, 1202…
Thai head of Buddha, Dvaravati kingdom, 8th 9th century, Dayton