Menara

Menara lies at the mouth of the Bang Nara River on the eastern coast of the Malay Peninsula. The settlement belonged to the wider Malay world of Patani, whose rulers maintained relations with the Siamese kingdoms to the north. Under the early Chakri kings it was governed from Sai Buri, and later came under Ra-ngae after Patani was divided into smaller towns. Its river joined the inland forests to the Gulf of Siam.