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	Thailand Historical Settings Ayutthaya :: ThailandGateway.Com
		For 417 years the kingdom of Ayutthaya was the dominant power in the fertile Menam or Chao Phraya Basin.
		Ayutthaya also captured Angkor on at least one occasion but was unable to hold on to it for long.
		The Ayutthaya kingdom thus changed, during the 15th century, from being a small state primus inter pares among similar states in central Thailand into an increasingly centralized kingdom wielding tight control over a core area of territory, as well as having looser authority over a string of tributary states.
	www.thailandgateway.com /about_thailand/ayuthaya.html (1676 words)

	Ayutthaya kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The kingdom of Ayutthaya was a Thai kingdom that existed from the 1350 to 1767.
		The dramatic rise of Ayutthaya had entailed constant warfare and, as none of the parties in the region possessed a technological advantage, the outcome of battles was usually determined by the size of the armies.
		Ayutthaya, situated at the southern extremity of the floodplain, thus became the hub of economic activity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ayutthaya_kingdom (2988 words)

	Pattani kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kingdom of Patani (Pattani) was a Malay state approximately covering the area of the modern Thai provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat.
		Although the Thai kingdom of Ayutthaya conquered the states of the isthmus in the thirteenth century and continued to control them in the modern period, the Malay of the peninsula were never culturally absorbed into the mainstream of Thai society.
		The Thai kingdom was not a single, unified state but rather a patchwork of self-governing principalities and tributary provinces owing allegiance to the king of Ayutthaya.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pattani_kingdom (890 words)

	Ayutthaya Period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The capital of Thailand from 1350 until it was sacked in 1767 by the Burmese, Ayutthaya is 76 kms.
		Ayutthaya also captured Angkor on at least one occasion but was unable to hold on to it for long.
		The Ayutthaya kingdom thus changed, during the 15th century, from being a small state primus inter pares among similar states in central Thailand into an increasingly centralized kingdom wielding tight control over a core area of territory, as well as having looser authority over a string of tributary states.
	thai_tour.tripod.com /thailand/id8.html (1734 words)

	Ayutthaya kingdom Summary
		The Thai kingdom was not a single, unified state but rather a patchwork of self-governing principalities and tributary provinces owing allegiance to the king of Ayutthaya under the mandala system.
		The dramatic rise of Ayutthaya had entailed constant warfare and, as none of the parties in the region possessed a technological advantage, the outcome of battles was usually determined by the size of the armies.
		Ayutthaya, situated at the southern extremity of the floodplain, thus became the hub of economic activity.
	www.bookrags.com /Ayutthaya_kingdom (4306 words)

	Junior Parliament for under 18s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Its capital was Ayutthaya, an island-city situated at the confluence of three rivers, the Chao Phraya, the Pasak, and the Lopburi.
		The Ayutthaya kingdom thus changed during the 15th century from being one of several similar small states in central Thailand into an increasingly centralized kingdom wielding tight control over a core area of territory, as well as having looser authority over a string of tributary states.
		The port of Ayutthaya became an international marketplace where goods from the Far East could be bought or bartered in exchange for merchandise from the Malay-Indonesian archipelago, India, or Persia, not to mention local wares or produce from Ayutthaya's vast hinterland.
	www.parliamentjunior.in.th /eng/politics/ayutthaya.asp (1256 words)

	Learn more about Ayutthaya kingdom in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		King Ramathibodi I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya (อยุธยา) as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed Sukhothai, 640 km to the north, in 1376.
		Over the next four centuries the kingdom expanded to become the nation of Siam, whose borders were roughly those of modern Thailand.
		In 1767 Ayutthaya was invaded and destroyed by Burma.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /a/ay/ayutthaya_kingdom.html (328 words)

	Time is 5_1
		The Kingdom of Ayutthaya (1350-1767) For 417 years the kingdom of Ayutthaya was the dominant power in the fertile Menam or Chao Phraya Basin.
		Its capital was Ayutthaya, an island-city situated at the confluence of three rivers, the Chao Phraya, the Pasak, and the Lopburi, which grew into one of Asia's most renowned metropolises, inviting comparison with great European cities such as Paris.
		The port of Ayutthaya was an entry point, an international market place where goods from the Far East could be bought or bartered in exchange for merchandise from the Malay/Indonesian Archipelago, India, or Persia, not to mention local wares or produce from Ayutthaya's vast hinterland.
	www.thai-center.dk /time_is_05_01.htm (1656 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ayutthaya
		Ayutthaya is an important centre of trade in a rich rice-producing...
		Ayutthaya, Kingdom of (1350-1767), Thai state, the capital of which was Ayutthaya.
		In 1350 a unified Thai kingdom was established by a ruler known posthumously as Rama Tibodi.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Ayutthaya.html (107 words)

	Kingdom of Ayutthaya - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The kingdom of Ayutthaya was a Thai kingdom that existed from 1350 to 1767.
		King Ramathibodi I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed Sukhothai, 640 km to the...
		After more than 400 years of power, in 1767, the Kingdom of Ayutthaya was brought down by invading Burmese armies, its capital burned, and the territory split.
	encarta.msn.com /Kingdom_of_Ayutthaya.html (144 words)

	Kingdoms of South East Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ayutthaya is located in the rich rice plains of the Chao Phraya River basin, 90 km north of present-day Bangkok.
		Ayutthaya was an underpopulated society, and the constant need for manpower helped protect clients from excessive demands by patrons; if the demands of the patrons became too burdensome, the freeman could always move and take up new land as a last resort.
		After 1351, when Ayutthaya was founded as the capital of a powerful rival Thai dynasty, Sukhothai's imperial influence began to wane, and in 1438 the town was conquered and incorporated into the Ayutthaya kingdom.
	berclo.net /page00/00en-sea-history.html (5896 words)

	Global Heritage Fund - Site Profile
		The kingdom of Ayutthaya was established in AD 1350 in central Thailand by King U-Tong or Ramathibodi I. During the 417 years of the Ayutthaya Empire, there were a total of five dynasties and 33 kings.
		The Sukhotai kingdom, which covered a relatively small area of land, was ruled by a benevolent Buddhist kingship, but this system of governing changed when the Ayutthayas came to power.
		After settling in Ayutthaya in 1350, U-Tong, who was renowned for being both a warrior and a lawmaker, began a policy of expansion for his empire, which was carried on by his successors.
	www.globalheritagefund.org /sites/apac/ayutthaya.html (920 words)

	The Kingdom of Ayutthaya, Thailand
		The kingdom of Ayutthaya existed between 1350 and 1767 A.D. and was founded by its first ruler King Ramathibodi I. The prior and short-lasting kingdom of Sukhothai to the North was absorbed into Ayutthaya.
		The history of Ayutthaya is a also a history of repeating wars with its neighbors.
		While Ayutthaya was ascending, the Khmer empire that had ruled large parts of present day Thailand, was already in decline.
	www.buddha-images.com /ayutthaya-history.asp (427 words)

	:: Thailand in Brief :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The city of Ayutthaya was established as the capital in AD 1350, but the emergence of the Ayutthaya Kingdom was not so sudden.
		There is evidence that King U Thong, the first king of Ayutthaya, and his subjects had previously evacuated the city to establish a new capital in Nong Sano District.
		Ayutthaya lost the battle in the reign of King Ekkathat in 1767, and the palace and all the temples were burnt.
	www.prd.go.th /ebook/inbrief/history/history_02.html (775 words)

	Ayutthaya - Kingdom of Thailand - Travel Pictures
		Ayutthaya was Thailand's second capital from 1350 until just after the city was sacked by the Burmese in 1765, prompting the move to Bangkok.
		Ayutthaya is small today - only 60,000 residents - but at its zenith the city boasted 1M inhabitants with influence streching into what is now Lao, Burma, and Cambodia.
		The species of tree is significant because it was under this sort of tree that the Buddha meditated to attain enlightenment.
	www.innogize.com /gallery/asia_th_ayutthaya.html (557 words)

	Ayutthaya Period,sunthai group 2006
		Ayutthaya, a former capital of Thailand from 1350 to 1767, is and interesting historic spot visited by large numbers of tourists on a one-day trip from Bangkok.
		Unlike other tourist centres, Ayutthaya's main attraction is not its beautiful scenery, but its calm atmosphere with the remains resulting from the destruction by the invading Burmese army in 1767.
		King Ramathibodi I and his immediate successors expanded Ayutthaya's territory, e specially northward towards Sukhothai and eastward towards the Khmer capital of Angkor.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Congress/7905/ayuthis1.htm (1739 words)

	History-4
		The new kingdom of Ayutthaya, (Siam) a raising young Thai state on the Chao Phraya River.
		The government of the kingdom was to a great extent modeled on that of Khmer Angkor, and in the early years of Ayutthaya's rise to ascendancy many of the court officials were drawn from the Khmerised aristocracy of Lop Buri and other former outposts of the Angkor empire.
		After the destruction and sacking of the great city of Ayutthaya, the invading Burmese king was so appalled at the terrible destruction committed by his invading troops, that he wept in sadness and had a temple built in an act of sorrow and forgiveness of the great city he had destroyed.
	www.usmta.com /history-4.htm (2416 words)

	simply-thai.com - Thai History
		The Lannatai Kingdom of Chiang Mai elects to ally itself with Burma and will be on the side of the Burmese more often than the side of Siam for most of the time in the next decades and centuries.
		During the Ayutthaya period, it had often been an ambitious palace official who ascended the throne instead of a designated heir, especially when the king to be was underage.
		Siam had it's longest border with the Annamese Kingdom (the present Vietnam) to the east, a shorter border with China to the north, a short, fairly horizontal border with Malaya in the south and to the east a border with Burma, pretty much the same as it is today.
	www.simply-thai.com /Thailand_Chronology_Thai_History.htm (18253 words)

	Iranica.com - THAILAND-IRANIAN RELATIONS
		Politically and militarily, the Qotb-Shahi kingdom was on the decline from the 2nd half of the 17th century on, due particularly to Mughal pressure from the north.
		The Iranian embassy of 1685/86 to Ayutthaya (of which Ebn Moháammad Ebra@him was a member) was thus rather a return visit, responding to the Siamese mission to Isfahan of 1684 and thus not to the earlier Siamese visit of 1669.
		Ayutthaya's development as a major trading power in the 2nd half of the 15th century resulted in an influx of foreign merchants, many of whom were to stay permanently.
	www.iranica.com /articles/sup/Thailand_Iran_Relt.html (4508 words)

	Brief History of Ayutthaya:
		King Ramesuan reigned Ayutthaya from 1931 to 1938 B.E. and he was the leader who took the troop to impregnate the kingdom of Cambodia.
		Ayutthaya lost in this battle because of the betrayal, Praya Charkree, was a spy for the Burmese army.Burmese army besieged Ayutthaya for a mounth until nearly the rainy season.Ayutthaya lost on Sunday the eleventh day waning moon in the nineth month,August 2112 B.E., only 20 days before the surrounding area will be flooded.
		King Mahadhamarajathiraj reigned from 2112 to 2133 B.E., the period that Ayutthaya was a colony to Burma.
	www.thaifolk.com /doc/ayudhaya_e.htm (1487 words)

	Ayutthaya Period
		Ayutthaya, a former capital of Thailand from 1350 to 1767, is and interesting historic spot visited by large numbers of tourists on a one-day trip from Bangkok.
		Unlike other tourist centres, Ayutthaya's main attraction is not its beautiful scenery, but its calm atmosphere with the remains resulting from the destruction by the invading Burmese army in 1767.
		The ruins offer the visitors a glimpse of old Ayutthaya, with once was a prosperous and majestic capital with over 400 magnificent Buddhist monasteries.
	members.tripod.com /~tudtu/ayuthis1.htm (1739 words)

	History of Ayutthaya \| AsiaExplorers
		The leading general of the Kingdom of U-Thong became ruler of that kingdom upon the death of its ruler.
		He moved the capital 50 km east, to the thriving town of Ayutthaya, and took on the title of Ramathibodi I. Ayutthaya was already a town when Ramathibodi I chose it as a capital.
		In 1515, Sukhothai was invaded by the forces of the Lan Xang Kingdom of Laos.
	www.asiaexplorers.com /thailand/ayutthaya/history.htm (2572 words)

	- - Sukhothai - -
		When Somdet Phra Ramathibodi I of Ayutthaya died in 1368 AD, Phra Maha Dharmaraja Li Thai tried to revive Sukhothai to its earlier state as the centre of the Kingdom, but he could not bring his political role into prominence, for he died in 1369 AD.
		Thence, the Ayutthayan Royal dynasty made every effort to gradually dominate over the Kingdom of Sukhothai by means of intermarriage between members of the two dynasties, peaceful penetration into aristocratic system and also supply of manpower to Sukhothai royalties who were related to the royal family of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya.
		When the 'northern region' was invaded by the troop of Lanna, he moved a troop from Ayutthaya to settle in Phitsanulok in 1464.
	www.su.ac.th /sukhothai/Sukhothai/html_about/sukhothai_eng_about3.html (261 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Ayutthaya
		The survivors are from Phitsanulok, Ayutthaya, Chainat and Nakhon Sawan.
		Ayutthaya _ Four people were arrested yesterday on charges of fraud and extortion after allegedly ripping off a senior monk in Uthai district for dental care...
		Ayutthaya MP Withaya Buranasiri said that if the proposal was enforced, Muslim politicians should be exempt from the requirement, as their religion allows them...
	conservation.mongabay.com /files/Ayutthaya.htm (8667 words)

	From Quaint Siam to Modern Thailand - Kingdom Brief History
		The name "Land of Smiles" adhered to this ancient Oriental kingdom probably because such a long and full of controversy and mysteries history of the Southeast Asia has taught Siamese, nowadays called Thai people to overcome, or to pass on difficulties with smiles.
		During some four hundred years of the Ayutthaya kingdom that first, fell to the Burmese in 1569, and then, finally burned to the ground in 1767, was a period of establishing solid traditions in the fine atrs and literature.
		A number of border clashes with neighboring communist and military regimes, numerous attempts of putsches, bloody antigovernment demonstrations and violent coups went on along the way to become a stable democracy and an economically prosperous nation.
	www.th4u.com /history.htm (906 words)

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