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::: THE CULTURE OF THE THAILAND :::
From the first traces of the flourishing civilization of the
age of the Bronze to Ban Chiang, preistorico village to east
north of the country, the history of the Thailand has been
all unless monotounus.
From China, through the fertile valleys of the river Mekong,
Monaci, Khmers and Thais gradually populated the earth today
known like Thailand. In the eleventh century, the Khmers
represented the dominant force.
This power lasted until the twelfth century when the Thais
began to construct the small villages of Lanna, Phayao and
Sukhothai. Soon two guerrieri heads Thais rebelled
themselves to the Khmers and instituted the first
independent state Thai close to Sukhothai, or literally "the
dawn of the happiness".
From Sukhothai, the river basin of the river Chao Phraya
began the long expansion and the Buddist Theravada
constituted the most diffused Thai religion. Sukhothai
crossed a conquered period of decline and from the young
person, dynamic reign of the Ayutthaya.
The dynasty of the Ayutthaya reigned in the center of
the Thailand like the more powerful state of Asia of the
south-east for 34 reigns until 1767 when it was defeat from
the invasion of the Burmesi armies. However with passing of
the months, King Taksin succeeded to reject the Burmese
invasion. King Taksin went goes and made to construct an
other to you understood them to Thon Buri giving therefore
life to the Rattanakosin period that reigns evryhour.
In the 1782 King Rama I, the first king of put into effect
them Chakri dynasty, established its new understood them on
the sides of the river of a called village Bangkok (Village
of the wild susine). In the course of the successes to you
two hundred years, the Chakri monarchs King Mongkut (Rama
IV) that he reigned from 1851 to 1868 and, its son, King
Chulalongkorn (Rama V) that he reigned from 1868 to 1910,
are still today you use in order to have conserved the
colonization and to have modernized the country.
From 1932 the Thailand has become a monarchy constitutional,
puts into effect It them monarch, Its Majesty King Bhumibol
Adulyadej, is, in the world, the monarch who have reigned
more to along and the most loved from its sudditi ones. It
has untiringly devolven its life to the improvement of the
quality of the life in Thailand. |
