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	Ponhea Yat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chao Ponhea Yat (1421 - 1462) was one of the kings of the Khmer Empire.
		He was the son of Srey Soriyovong II and became king in 1431.
		This biography of a member of an Asian royal house is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ponhea_Yat (191 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Phnom Penh
		Krong Chaktomuk is an abbreviation of its ceremonial name given by King Ponhea Yat which was "Krong Chaktomuk Mongkol Sakal Kampuchea Thipadei Sereythor Inthabot Borei Roth Reach Seima Maha Nokor".
		Phnom Penh first became the capital of Cambodia after Ponhea Yat, king of the Khmer Empire fled Angkor Thom when it was captured by Siam in 1431.
		It was not until 1866 under the reign of King Norodom I that Phnom Penh became the permanent seat of government, and the Royal Palace(pictured) was built.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Phnom_Penh (957 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The National Museum and The Ponhea Yat High School - A376526 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There was also an exhibit of more modern (eighteenth and nineteenth century) artifacts, carved bowls, drinking vessels etc. but, to me, they couldn't hold a candle to the statues.
		Built in 1962 as the Ponhea Yat High School, it was named after an ancestor of King Norodom Sihanouk.
		In the 1970's the school's name was changed by the US backed Republican regime to Tuol Svay Prey High School (named after the sub-district in the south of Phnom Penh in which it is found).
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A376526 (1182 words)

	Wat Phnom pagoda
		In 1372 she built a hill and a placed a shrine on top of this to house the precious artefacts.
		In 1434, King Ponhea Yat came and constructed the city which he gave the name Phnom Penh.
		People from Phnom Penh consider her as a powerful protective spirit of the town and they will offer for her and request her help for any major decisions.
	www.taxivantha.com /2_Phnom_Penh/2102.htm (190 words)

	Apsara Angkor Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In AD 1372, she built a hill, or Phnom, and placed a shrine on top to house the precious artifacts.
		In AD 1434, King Ponhea Yat came and constructed a city and gave the name Phnom Penh.
		On the hill there is a large stupa that holds the cremains of King Ponhea Yat and his royal family.
	www.visitangkornow.com /placefortours/phnompenh.asp (675 words)

	phnom_penh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1372 there was a mountain supervised by grandmother Penh before King Ponhea Yat.
		Until King Ponhea Yat build the capital in Phnom Penh, in the fifteenth century.
		In the area of Wat Phnom, there are a big Stupa behind the temple used for keeping the cremated ashes of the King, Ponhea Yat, The Stupa for keeping the cremated ash of the Royal Families and remaining Buddhist statues of Angkorean era in the big Stupa behind.
	www.ch-worldtravel.com /place-interest/phnom_penh.html (1042 words)

	Sightseeing - Phnom Penh
		The choice of the area at the confluence of two great rivers may have reflected a shift from an agrarian to a trade oriented ecomomy.
		Wat Botum Significant because it is the one of the city's original wats, it was founded in 1422 by King Ponhea yat.
		The large stupa contains the remains of King Ponhea Yat (1405-1467) who moved the Khmer capital from Angkor to Phnom Penh in 1422.
	www.angkorhorizons.com /place_to_see_pp.htm (1771 words)

	hart of PP
		When King Ponhea Yat abandoned Angkor in 1434, he eventually moved to Phnom Penh and the city was stamped as the Kingdom's capital.
		Some people say King Ponhea Yat's remains rest in the stupa on the western side of Wat Phnom but no one knows for sure.
		We believe those were probably put in King Ponhea Yat's stupa," she said.
	www.leisurecambodia.com /Leisure_Cambodia/No.10/heartOfPP.htm (723 words)

	Phnom Penh Municipality !
		To order district leader of Samrong Tong Province, Chao Ponhea Decho, to bank up dirt around the hill and area closed to river shore to construct royal palace, and the digging place for dirt became a lake called Decho Lake (Now: Phsar Thmey market).
		To construct stupa on Phnom Daun Penh to bury the ashes of H M. Chao Ponhea Yat.
		To construct stupa at the foot of Phnom Daun Penh hill, at northeast, to bury the ashes of HM.
	www.phnompenh.gov.kh /english/history.htm (1395 words)

	Phnom Penh, Cambodia
		She thus founded a pagoda, Wat Phnom Don Penh, The Monastery on the Hill of Lady Penh.
		In 1434 the city founded some years earlier by King Ponhea Yat was finished.
		Following its recent traumatic history, parks, gardens and elegant villas are now being restored, tree-lined boulevards still reflect the elegance of the city's French colonial past, and camera-clicking tourists sit in pedicabs ("cyclos") which weave their way leisurely through the increasing numbers of cars and motorcycles.
	www.phnompenhtours.com /PP.htm (924 words)

	Angkor Archaeological Park Cambodia - History of Angkorian Era Khmer Empire. Angkor Wat, Bayon, Angkor Thom, Ta Prohm, ...
		After the 13th century, Angkor suffered repeated invasions by the Thai from the west, pressuring the Khmer and contributing to the capital being moved from Angkor.
		After a seven-month siege on Angkor in 1431, King Ponhea Yat moved the capital from Angkor to Phnom Penh in 1432.
		This move may also have marked a shift from an agrarian-based economy to a trade based economy, in which a river junction location like Phnom Penh rather than the inland area of Angkor would be more advantageous.
	www.canbypublications.com /siemreap/history.htm (2134 words)

	History of Cambodia
		Khmer kings initiated a four-century long construction boom of magnificent and unparalleled proportions.
		Besieged by an expanding Siamese kingdom in the west, the Khmer King Ponhea Yat abandoned Angkor in 1434.
		The seat of power was successively transferred to the sites of Lovek, Oudong and finally in what is the nation’s present day Capital - Phnom Penh.
	members.tripod.com /~Tan4Peace/hiscamb.html (849 words)

	Phnom Penh Cambodia: History of Phnom Penh
		Yet the area has been central to Cambodia’s economy and politics for almost 600 years.
		After King Ponhea Yat abandoned Angkor in 1422, he founded his new capital and five wats at Phnom Penh.
		The choice of this area at the confluence of two great rivers may have reflected a shift from an agrarian to a trade oriented economy.
	www.canbypublications.com /phnompenh/pphistory.htm (234 words)

	History post-Angkor
		Only by balancing their respective influences could the Khmer monarchy survive.
		King Ponhea Yat moved his capital to Phnom Penh.
		This new centre of power was located at the confluence of the Mekong and the Tonle Sab rivers.
	www.taxivantha.com /1_Cambodia/113.htm (780 words)

	Cambodia Tales - Tuol Sleng
		This is a report from my visit in March 1998 to a place known to factory staff working nearby at the time as 'konlaenh choul min dael chenh' (or "the place where people went in but never came out").
		Following the Khmer Rouge occupation of Phnom Penh in 1975, they turned the former school, known at different times as either the Lycee Chau Ponhea Yat or Tuol Svay Prey High School, into Democratic Kampuchea's premier incarceration facility, recognised and supported at the highest levels of the Khmer Rouge hierarchy.
		Aptly translated as "Hill of the Poison Tree", Tuol Sleng is located in the southern suburbs of the capital.
	www.btinternet.com /~andy.brouwer/tuolslen.htm (2198 words)

	::: TOUR PROGRAM - SKY TRAVEL CO., LTD. ::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Phnom Penh also bears another name - Krong Chatomuk, The Four Faces City - refferring to its unique location, at the four arms formed by the upper and lower Mekong, the Tonle Sap and Tonle Basac.
		Phnom Penh was founded in 1434 aftter an expanding Siamese Kingdom in the west, the Khmer Kind Ponhea Yat abandoned Angkor in 1431.
		The seat of power was successively transferred to the sites of Lovek, Oudong, and finally in what is the nation's present day capital.
	www.sky-cambodia.com /tour.html (426 words)

	Travel And Transportation
		The large stupa contains the remains of King Ponhea Yat (1405-1467).
		Look for the altar of lady Penh between the stupa and the vihear.
		Significant because it id one of the city's original wats, it was founded in 1422 by king Ponhea Yat.
	www.cambodiaportal.com /oudong/english/cambodia/phnompenh_exploring.htm (1304 words)

	Cambodian history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The period following 1432, with the Cambodian people bereft of their treasures, documents, and human culture bearers, was one of precipitous decline.
		In 1434 King Ponhea Yat made Phnom Penh his capital, and Angkor was abandoned to the jungle.
		During the following century, King Ang Chan (1516-1566) transferred the capital to Lungvek (lovek), but it was taken in 1594 by the Siamese.
	research.umbc.edu /eol/cambodia/histcamb.htm (906 words)

	Welcome to Discovery-Asia.com (Myanmar)
		The temple seen today was actually built in 1926.
		The ancient stupa (tomb) behind it contains King Ponhea Yat’s ashes (the ruler who actually abandoned Angkor in 1431).
		Visitors should not leave the site without visiting a memorial, which recalls the returning of three provinces from Thailand following its brief capture of them during World War II (located on the south side at the foot of the hill).
	www.discovery-asia.com /cambodia/phnom_penh.htm (1199 words)

	Cambodian Information Center >> Travel to Cambodia \| Cambodia Attraction
		Brief History: Phnom Penh was found in 1372 by Lady Penh.
		After King Ponhea Yat vacated Angkor in 1422, Phnom Penh has been established as a Capital on and off.
		In 1866 and thereafter, Phnom Penh become a central point of Cambodia’s economy and politics permanently.
	www.cambodia.org /travel (492 words)

	Phnom Penh - Cambodia - Asia for Visitors
		Legend has it that Phnom Penh was founded in 1372.
		It first served as Cambodia's capital in 1432, when King Ponhea Yat abandoned Angkor in the face of the invading Siamese.
		By 1505 the capital had been moved to Lovek, and Phnom Penh returned to the simple existence as a fishing village at the junction of the Tonle and Mekong Rivers.
	asiaforvisitors.com /cambodia/pp/index.html (471 words)

	Khmer Forum - Cambodia Forum: Phnom Penh History - Cambodian Forum
		* To order district leader of Samrong Tong Province, Chao Ponhea Decho, to bank up dirt around the hill and area closed to river shore to construct royal palace, and the digging place for dirt became a lake called Decho Lake (Now: Phsar Thmey market).
		* To construct stupa on Phnom Daun Penh to bury the ashes of H M. Chao Ponhea Yat.
		* Third son of H.M Chao Ponhea Yat.
	www.cambodiaforum.com /index.php?showtopic=4547 (1840 words)

	Mr. Sanguine's Home
		The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum serves as a stark reminder to those dark days of modern Cambodian history.
		Originally run as a high school called Ponhea Yat when it opened in 1962, the building was converted by the Khmer Rogue into a detention center in 1975.
		It was renamed Tuol Sleng which roughly translates to "mound of poisonous trees" in the Khmer language.
	mrsanguine.blogspot.com (4938 words)

	Voices From S-21
		In the early 1960s, when Cambodia had been ruled by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, it had been a high school.
		It was named after Ponhea Yat, a semilegendary Cambodian king associated with the foundation of Phnom Penh.
		After Sihanouk was overthrown in 1970—the event that sparked Cambodia's civil war—the school had taken the name of the surrounding district, Tuol Svay Prey (hillock of the wild mango).
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/c/chandler-voices.html (4891 words)

	The Rest of the Cambodia Trail
		Unlike the Killing Fields, the atmosphere at S21 is chilling to say the least.
		In 1962 the complex of buildings was a high school called 'Ponhea Yat' but in 1976 the KR Regime took over and established 'Security Office 21', a prison to be solely used for the interrogation and extermination of anyone against their cause.
		In the next 2 years over 10,500 men, women and children went through the system at S21.
	www.travelblog.org /Asia/Cambodia/blog-3757.html (935 words)

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