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THE KHMER EMPIRE
THE KHMER EMPIRE was a powerful kingdom based in what is now Cambodia. Angkor bears testimony to the Khmer empire's immense power and wealth, as well as the variety of belief systems that it patronized over time. The history of Angkor as the central area of settlement of the historical kingdom of Kambuja is also the history of the Khmer from the 9th to the 15th centuries.Jayavarman II was the founder of Angkor and Yasodharapura was the first city of Angkor. Jayavarman II's successors continually extended the territory of Kambuja. The city's central temple was built on Phnom Bakheng, a hill which rises around 60 m above the plain on which Angkor sits. A 12 or 13th century relief at the Bayon temple in Angkor depicts the Khmer army going to war against the Cham. A 12 or 13th century relief at the Bayon temple in Angkor depicts the Khmer army going to war against the Cham. Jayavarman IV established a new capital at Koh Ker, some 100 km northeast of Angkor. In 950 the first war took place between Kambuja and the kingdom of Champa to the east. From 968 to 1001 reigned the son of Rajendravarman II, Jayavarman V. New temples were also established: the most important of these are Banteay Srei, considered one of the most beautiful and artistic of Angkor, and Ta Keo, the first temple of Angkor built completely of sandstone.
Only with Suryavarman II (reigned 1113 - 1150) was the kingdom united internally and extended externally. Under his rule, the largest temple of Angkor was built in a period of 37 years: Angkor Wat, dedicated to the god Vishnu. The future king Jayavarman VII (reigned 1181-1219) was already a military leader as prince under previous kings. After the Cham had conquered Angkor, he gathered an army and regained the capital, Yasodharapura. Like his father, Jayavarman VII was a Buddhist, and completed a series of temples begun under his father's rule. In the year 1220 the Khmer withdrew from many of the provinces previously conquered from Champa. In the west, his Thai subjects rebelled, established the first Thai kingdom at Sukhothai and pushed back the Khmer. Indravarman II was succeeded by Jayavarman VIII (reigned 1243-1295). Jayavarman VIII's rule ended in 1295 when he was deposed by his son-in-law Srindravarman (reigned 1295-1309). In August of 1296, the Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan arrived at Angkor, and remained at the court of king Srindravarman until July 1297. The centre of the residual Khmer kingdom was in the south, in the region of today's Phnom Penh. One line of Khmer kings would have remained there, while a second moved to Phnom Penh to establish a parallel kingdom. Under the rule of king Barom Reachea I (reigned 1566 - 1576), who temporarily succeeded in driving back the Thai, the royal court was briefly returned to Angkor.
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