Khmer
The Khmer Empire was centred on Angkor near the Tonle Sap. By the 1330s Theravada Buddhism had spread at court, royal inscriptions had fallen silent, and regional lords and Thai kingdoms were eroding royal power.
In 1431 Ayutthaya sacked Angkor Thom; the court moved to Phnom Penh and later Longvek, a port of call for Portuguese and Spanish visitors before Ayutthaya destroyed it in 1594. Vietnamese settlers spread into the Mekong delta in the seventeenth century. Khmer kings became alternating vassals of Siam and Vietnam in the eighteenth, and Vietnamese garrisons controlled much of the kingdom by the 1830s.
Characters
- Candravati
- Srindrabhupesvarachuda
- Indrajayavarman
- Indravarman II
- Indravarman III
- Jayavarman IX
- Jayavarman VII
- Jayavarman VIII
- Nippean Bat
- Sithean Reachea
- Trasak Paem
- Fa Ngum
- Khun Phi Fa