Chiang Mai HistoryChiang Mai has one of the richest historical stories in all of Thailand.by Mr. Michael Comglas - British - 10 July 2006 |
| Hundreds of years before the ascension of the Ayutthaya and Sukhotai kingdoms, the northern Thai kingdom of Lanna was a prosperous and flourishing state that was founded on the friendship of three kings. Being able to chronicle its beginnings back 700 years, Chiang Mai has one of the richest historical stories in all of Thailand.
King Mengrai is the founding father of Nophaburi Sri Nakorn Ping Chiang Mai. In 1296, he christened this the capital of his blossoming Lanna kingdom or Kingdom of... (More) |
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| * Picture choosen by Mr. Michael Comglas |
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