Khmer Empire - Part 01
The Khmer Empire (Khmer: ចក្រភពខ្មែរ ឬ អាណាចក្រខ្មែរ "Chakrphup Khmer" or "Anachak Khmer"), authoritatively the Angkor Empire (Khmer: អាណាចក្រអង្គរ : "Anachak Angkor"), the ancestor state to present day Cambodia ("Kampuchea" or "Srok Khmer" to the Khmer individuals), was an intense Hindu-Buddhist domain in Southeast Asia. The domain, which became out of the previous kingdoms of Funan and Chenla, now and again administered over and additionally vassalised a large portion of territory Southeast Asia.[1]
Its most prominent heritage is Angkor, in exhibit day Cambodia, which was the site of the capital city amid the domain's peak. The glorious landmarks of Angkor, for example, Angkor Wat and Bayon—bear declaration to the Khmer Empire's tremendous influence and riches, great craftsmanship and culture, building method and feel accomplishments, and in addition the assortment of conviction frameworks that it belittled after some time. Satellite imaging has uncovered that Angkor, amid its top in the eleventh to thirteenth hundreds of years, was the biggest pre-modern urban focus in the world.[2]
The start of the period of the Khmer Empire is routinely dated to 802 CE. In this year, King Jayavarman II had himself announced chakravartin ("ruler of the world", or "lord of rulers") on Phnom Kulen. The realm finished with the fall of Angkor in the fifteenth century.
Its most prominent heritage is Angkor, in exhibit day Cambodia, which was the site of the capital city amid the domain's peak. The glorious landmarks of Angkor, for example, Angkor Wat and Bayon—bear declaration to the Khmer Empire's tremendous influence and riches, great craftsmanship and culture, building method and feel accomplishments, and in addition the assortment of conviction frameworks that it belittled after some time. Satellite imaging has uncovered that Angkor, amid its top in the eleventh to thirteenth hundreds of years, was the biggest pre-modern urban focus in the world.[2]
The start of the period of the Khmer Empire is routinely dated to 802 CE. In this year, King Jayavarman II had himself announced chakravartin ("ruler of the world", or "lord of rulers") on Phnom Kulen. The realm finished with the fall of Angkor in the fifteenth century.
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