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At Krabi Airport, leaving for
Ayuttaya
and Burma
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The history of Thailand has been busy since
the first traces of the flourishing civilizations of
the Bronze Age village of prehistoric Ban Chiang,
found in the north east of the country.
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Through the fertile river valleys of the Mekong,
the monks, and the Khmers. Thais from China
gradually populated the land now known as Thailand. |
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During the eleventh century, the Khmer were
the dominant force.
Their power lasted until the twelfth century when
the Thai established the villages of Phayao,
Lanna and Sukhothai.
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Just that civilization was consolidated, the two
heads of warriors rebelled to Thai
Khmer and founded the first independent Thai
state near Sukhothai which literally means "The dawn
of happiness". |
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From Sukhothai began expanding along the
basin of the river Chao Phraya and
Theravada Buddhism became the most widespread
Thai religion. Sukhothai then underwent a period
of decline and was conquered by the young and
dynamic kingdom of Ayutthaya. |
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The dynasty of Ayutthaya reigned unchallenged
in the center of Thailand and became the most
powerful countries of the south-east for 34 kingdoms
until 1767 when he was defeated since the Burmese
army.
But it was an invasion soon, within a few months
that King Taksin managed to reject the
Burmese invasion. |
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King Taksin and then built another capital to
Thon Buri and thus gave life to the
Rattanakosin period, which still reigns.
King Rama I in 1782, the first king of the
present Chakri dynasty, founded his new
capital on the banks of the river to a village
called Bangkok (Village of wild plums). |
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Over the next two centuries, the Chakri monarchs
King Mongkut (Rama IV) who reigned from 1851 to
1868, and his son, King Chulalongkorn (Rama V)
who reigned from
1868 to 1910, have preserved the colonization and
modernized the country and are still revered today
for this. |
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Since 1932, Thailand became a constitutional
monarchy.
The current King,
His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, is the
monarch who reigned longer in the oldest and most
loved by his subjects. |
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He has tirelessly devoted his life to improving the
quality of life of his subjects in Thailand. |
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