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The Khmer Empire was a Hindu-Buddhist empire in Southeast Asia, ... The 12th century was a time of conflict and brutal power struggles. Under Suryavarman II ...
Angkor Wat was built at the behest of the Khmer king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century in Yaśodharapura (present-day Angkor), the capital of the Khmer Empire, as his state temple and eventual mausoleum. Angkor Wat combines two basic plans of Khmer temple architecture: the temple-mountain and the later galleried temple.
Angkor ( Khmer: អង្គរ [ʔɑŋkɔː], lit. 'Capital city'), also known as Yasodharapura ( Khmer: យសោធរបុរៈ; Sanskrit: यशोधरपुर ), [1] [2] was the capital city of the Khmer Empire. The city and empire flourished from approximately the 9th to the 15th centuries. The city houses the Angkor Wat, one of ...
The 12th-century temple of Angkor Wat is the masterpiece of Angkorian ... Cambodia was known as the Chenla kingdom, the predecessor state of the Khmer empire.
The 12th century is the period from 1101 to 1200 in accordance with the Julian calendar. ... He expands the Khmer Empire and built Angkor Wat during the first half of ...
Khmer inscriptions. Khmer inscriptions are a corpus of post-5th century historical texts engraved on materials such as stone and metal ware found in a wide range of mainland Southeast Asia ( Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Laos) and relating to the Khmer civilization. The study of Khmer inscriptions is known as Khmer epigraphy .
Varman is the traditional suffix of the Pallava dynasty that is generally translated as "shield" or "protector", and was adopted by Khmer royal lineages. Life and reign. Dvaravati began to come under the influence of the Khmer Empire and central-southeast Asia was ultimately invaded by King Suryavarman II in the first half of the 12th century.
Khmer, armed with war elephants, drove out the Cham in the 12th century. The classic period or Khmer Empire lasted from the early 9th century to the early 15th century. Technical and artistic progress, greatest cultural achievements, political integrity and administrative stability marked the golden age of Khmer civilization.