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Cambodian Conflict (1979–1998) Restart of the Conflict in 1993, and end of The Khmer Rouge in 1999. The Cambodian Conflict or Khmer Rouge Insurgency, [5] was an armed conflict that initiated in the Cambodian-Vietnamese War, Vietnam which provoked the deposition of Democratic Kampuchea, between the new Cambodian government (supported by ...
Khmer Republic, the official name of Cambodia from 1970 to 1975. Khmer Sâ (White Khmer), a pro-US force formed by the Khmer Republic's defence minister Sak Sutsakhan. Khmer script, the script used to write the Khmer and Khmer Loeu languages. Khmer Serei, anti-communist and anti-monarchist guerrilla force founded by Cambodian nationalist Son ...
The Khmer nobility is a social class comprising titled officials in the service of the monarchy. They form part of a hierarchical social system which developed from the time of the Angkorian Empire. While all titles were abolished by Pol Pot under the Democratic Kampuchea, they were restored and have multiplied since the restoration of monarchy ...
The Phimai Historical Park ( Thai: อุทยานประวัติศาสตร์พิมาย) is a historical park in Thailand, covering the ancient town of Phimai and the ruins of Prasat Phimai Thai: ปราสาทพิมาย, pronounced [prāː.sàːt pʰí (ʔ).māːj]) the largest ancient Khmer - Hindu temple in ...
Release. 1979. ( 1979) Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia is a 1979 British television documentary film written and presented by the Australian journalist John Pilger, which was produced and directed by David Munro for the ITV network by Associated Television (ATV). [1] First broadcast on 30 October 1979, the filmmakers had entered ...
Siam Nakhon province. Siam Nakhon (Thai: สยาม นคร ), later known as Siam Marat, was the name of a former Thai province in the Angkor area. It was a changwat (province) of Siam, but was ceded to French Indochina following the Franco–Siam Treaty of 1906. Its Khmer name was Siem Reap, which meant "defeat Siam".
The earliest record of this slogan in Cambodia appears in the preface to the Cultural Committee's serial of world lists carried in the Khmer-language Kambuja Suryia in 1949, but most decisively, Khmer novelist Nhok Them popularized the triad with a book entitled Nation, Religion, King in 1950. Nhok Them had studied in Thailand from 1918 to 1930 ...
Khom. Khom ( Thai: ขอม, pronounced [kʰɔ̌ːm]) is a Thai - and Lao -language term referring to the people and civilization of the ancient Khmer Empire. Its use is recorded as early as the 12th century, though its exact meaning—whether it refers to a specific empire, a certain historical period, or the Khmer people in general—has ...