Territorial Losses Of Thailand
The territorial losses of Thailand is a concept in Thai historiography, referring to episodes of conflict in the Rattanakosin period, Rattanakosin-period history of Thailand (or Siam as the country was historically known) where the country was forced to cede territory, especially to the Western colonial powers of France and Great Britain during the reign of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V, 1868–1910). The concept was first popularized in the 1930s as part of the Thai nationalism, Thai nationalist ideology promoted by the government of Plaek Phibunsongkhram. The idea was propagated through sets of maps, titled the Historical Atlas of Thailand and Map of the History of Thailand's Boundary, that claimed to depict the historical extent of the boundaries of Thailand's predecessor states and the territories it subsequently lost. The maps have been widely disseminated, especially through their inclusion in Thongbai Taengnoi's student atlas, a standard textbook used in Thai schools since 196 ...
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Map Of Siam (territorial Cessions)
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as Physical body, objects, regions, or themes. Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or fictional, without regard to Context (language use), context or Scale (map), scale, such as in brain mapping, DNA mapping, or computer network topology mapping. The space being mapped may be two dimensional, such as the surface of the earth, three dimensional, such as the interior of the earth, or even more abstract spaces of any dimension, such as arise in modeling phenomena having many independent variables. Although the earliest maps known are of the heavens, geographic maps of territory have a very long tradition and exist from ancient times. The word "map" comes from the , wherein ''mappa'' meant 'napkin' or 'cloth' and ''mundi'' 'the world'. ...
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