Angkor
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 18, 2020 05:41 PM
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History
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The capital city of the Khmer empire, founded in the late 9th century by Yasovarman I (889-901). The city was sacked in 1431 by invaders from the Ayutthaya kingdom, and was abandoned except for the temple of Angkor Wat, which remained a Buddhist shrine.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/531398484
13.43333, 103.8333
- Representative Locations:
- UNESCO representative location of Angkor (AD 800 - AD 1499)
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- អង្គរ (Angkor: Khmer, AD 800 - AD 1499)
- None
- Angkor Wat located at Angkor (unspecified date range)
settlement
- See Further:
- Related:
Pleiades
Gabriel Mckee, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Angkor: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/531398484> [accessed: 06 June 2023]
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