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Yasothon
Yasothon ( th, ยโสธร, ) is a town on the Chi River in the north-eastern region of Thailand. It is the capital and administrative center of Yasothon province and seat of its city district. In this district, subdistrict Nai Mueang ( 'in town') incorporates the bounds of the town proper, which had a population of 21,134 in 2005. It lies north-east of Bangkok. History Founding In 2354 B.E. (1811 CE) Chao ('lord') Racha Wong Singh ( — 'descended from lions') more often transliterated ''sing'', led his people to a landing on the River Chi, to found a town on a bluff near a deserted temple. The lion, Sing, was a son of Chao Phraya Wichai () in the capital of Champasak (). The town was first called Ban Sing Kow ( 'old lion village') or Ban Sing Tha (). While there are numerous Khmer artifacts in and around the city, no written history is known prior to that year. A weather-worn and now nearly illegible marker erected by Thailand's Fine Arts department () for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasothon Province
Yasothon province ( th, ยโสธร, ), one of Thailand's seventy-six provinces (''changwat''), lies in central northeastern Thailand also called Isan. The province was established by the revolutionary council of Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn, after its Announcement No. 70 which came into force on 3 March 1972. Neighboring provinces are (from north clockwise) Mukdahan, Amnat Charoen, Ubon Ratchathani, Sisaket, and Roi Et. Geography The northern half of the province consists of plains with low hills; the southern part consists of the river lowlands of the River Chi, with ponds and swamps. Yasothon's total forested area is or 8.7% of the province. Geology Yasothon soils (rhodic ferralsols) formed in the Triassic before the uplift of the Khorat Plateau, are relict soils made fertile by field termites through bioturbation. National park There is one national park, along with five other national parks, make up region 9 (Ubon Ratchathani) of Thailand's protected areas. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasothon Wat Singh Tha 08
Yasothon ( th, ยโสธร, ) is a town on the Chi River in the north-eastern region of Thailand. It is the capital and administrative center of Yasothon province and seat of its city district. In this district, subdistrict Nai Mueang ( 'in town') incorporates the bounds of the town proper, which had a population of 21,134 in 2005. It lies north-east of Bangkok. History Founding In 2354 B.E. (1811 CE) Chao ('lord') Racha Wong Singh ( — 'descended from lions') more often transliterated ''sing'', led his people to a landing on the River Chi, to found a town on a bluff near a deserted temple. The lion, Sing, was a son of Chao Phraya Wichai () in the capital of Champasak (). The town was first called Ban Sing Kow ( 'old lion village') or Ban Sing Tha (). While there are numerous Khmer artifacts in and around the city, no written history is known prior to that year. A weather-worn and now nearly illegible marker erected by Thailand's Fine Arts department () for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mueang Yasothon District
Mueang Yasothon ( th, เมืองยโสธร, ) is the capital district of Yasothon province in northeastern Thailand on the Chi River. Sub-district Nai Mueang (, 'in the town') defines the city limits of the town of Yasothon. History According to the chronicles of Mueang Yasothon, in 1795 Phra Chao Worawongsa (Phra Wo), Minister of Vientiane, and several others set off to live with the king of Champassak. Along the way they came to a jungle where spirits dwelt, and seeing that it was a good place, they built a village there next to the grounds of an abandoned wat. They called it ''Wat Singh Tha'' (), which remains to this day. The village they called '' Ban Singh Tha'' (). Singh is a mythical lion; ''tha'' () means 'pose'. A marker for a chedi erected by Wat Singh Tha says that, during the Thonburi Period, grandson Kham Su () called the settlement Ban Singh Thong (). The wat, which had been deserted with dense jungle blocking the way to the river landing, was re-built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isan
Northeast Thailand or Isan (Isan/ th, อีสาน, ; lo, ອີສານ; also written as Isaan, Isarn, Issarn, Issan, Esan, or Esarn; from Pali ''īsānna'' or Sanskrit ईशान्य ''īśānya'' "northeast") consists of 20 provinces in the northeastern region of Thailand. Isan is Thailand's largest region, located on the Khorat Plateau, bordered by the Mekong River (along the Laos–Thailand border) to the north and east, by Cambodia to the southeast and the Sankamphaeng Range south of Nakhon Ratchasima. To the west it is separated from northern and central Thailand by the Phetchabun Mountains. Isan covers making it about half the size of Germany and roughly the size of England and Wales. The total forest area is or 15 percent of Isan's area. Since the beginning of the 20th century, northeastern Thailand has been generally known as ''Isan'', while in official contexts the term ''phak tawan-ok-chiang-nuea'' (; 'northeastern region') may be used. The majority p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chi River
The Chi River (, , ) is the longest river flowing wholly within Thailand. It is long but carries less water than the second longest river, the Mun. The name of the river is "Mae Si" () in the Isan and Lao languages of the region, being transliterated as "Chi" in Bangkok-Thai. In wet seasons there are often flash floods in the floodplain of the Chi River basin. Course The river rises in the Phetchabun mountains, then runs east through the central Isan provinces of Chaiyaphum, Khon Kaen, and Maha Sarakham, then turns south in Roi Et, runs through Yasothon and joins the Mun in the Kanthararom district of Sisaket Province. The river carries approximately of water per annum. The river was an 18th-century migration route for the re-peopling of the Khorat Plateau by ethnic Lao people from the left (east) bank of the Mekong resettling on the right bank. This began in 1718 when the first king of the left bank Kingdom of Champasak, King Nokasad, sent a group of some 3,000 subjects led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Thailand
The provinces of Thailand are part of the government of Thailand that is divided into 76 provinces ( th, จังหวัด, , ) proper and one special administrative area ( th, เขตปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่นรูปแบบพิเศษ), representing the capital Bangkok. They are the primary local government units and act as juristic persons. They are divided into amphoe (districts) which are further divided into tambon (sub districts), the next lower level of local government. Each province is led by a governor (ผู้ว่าราชการจังหวัด ''phu wa ratchakan changwat''), who is appointed by the central government. The provinces and administrative areas * The total population of Thailand is 66,558,935 on 31 December 2019. * The total land area of Thailand is 517,646 km2 in 2013. * HS – Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System. * FIPS code is replaced on 31 December 2014 with ISO 3166. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thai Highway Network
The Thai highway network follows the Right- and left-hand traffic, left-hand traffic rule of the road. The network is the twin responsibility of the Department of Highways (Thailand), Department of Highways (DOH, th, กรมทางหลวง, ''Krom Thang Luang''), and the Department of Rural Roads (DORR, , ''Krom Thang Luang Chonnabot''), under the oversight of the Transportation ministry of Thailand. Public highways (, ''thang luang'') are also called public roads (, ''thanon luang''), especially when part of urban streets. The network spans over 70,000 kilometers across all regions of Thailand. Most are single carriageways. Dual carriageways have frequent u-turn lanes and intersections slowing down traffic. Coupled with the increase in the number of vehicles and the demand for a limited-access motorway, the Thai Government issued a Cabinet resolution in 1997 detailing the motorway construction master plan. Some upgraded sections of highway are being turned into a "mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thai Honorifics
Honorifics are a class of words or grammatical morphemes that encode a wide variety of social relationships between interlocutors or between interlocutors and referents.Foley, William. ''Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction''. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997. Honorific phenomena in Thai include honorific registers, honorific pronominals, and honorific particles. Historical development Thai honorifics date back to the Sukhothai Kingdom, a period which lasted from 1238 to 1420 CEKhanittanan, Wilaiwan. "An aspect of the origins and development of linguistic politeness in Thai". ''Broadening the horizon of linguistic politeness''. Ed. Robin T. Lakoff and Sachiko Ide. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 2005. 315-335. During the Sukhothai period, honorifics appeared in the form of kinship terms. The Sukhothai period also saw the introduction of many Khmer and Pali loanwords to Thai. Later, in the Ayutthaya Kingdom (1351 to 1767 CE), a new form of honorific speech evolved. Whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thonburi
__NOTOC__ Thonburi ( th, ธนบุรี) is an area of modern Bangkok. During the era of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya, its location on the right (west) bank at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River had made it an important garrison town, which is reflected in its name: ''thon'' () a loanword from Pali ''dhána'' wealth and ''buri'' (), from ''púra'' fortress. The full formal name was Thon Buri Si Mahasamut ( 'City of Treasures Gracing the Ocean'). For the informal name, see the history of Bangkok under Ayutthaya. In 1767, after the sack of Ayutthaya by the Burmese, General Taksin took back Thonburi and, by right of conquest, made it the capital of the Thonburi Kingdom, with himself crown king until 6 April 1782, when he was deposed. Rama I, the newly enthroned king, moved the capital across the river, where stakes driven into the soil of Bangkok for the City Pillar at 06:45 on 21 April 1782, marking the official founding of the new capital. Thonburi remained an independent tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stupa
A stupa ( sa, स्तूप, lit=heap, ) is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (such as ''śarīra'' – typically the remains of Buddhist monks or nuns) that is used as a place of meditation. In Buddhism, circumambulation or ''pradakhshina'' has been an important ritual and devotional practice since the earliest times, and stupas always have a ''pradakhshina'' path around them. The original South Asian form is a large solid dome above a tholobate or drum with vertical sides, which usually sits on a square base. There is no access to the inside of the structure. In large stupas there may be walkways for circumambulation on top of the base as well as on the ground below it. Large stupas have or had ''vedikā'' railings outside the path around the base, often highly decorated with sculpture, especially at the torana gateways, of which there are usually four. At the top of the dome is a thin vertical element, with one of more horizontal discs spreadin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wong (surname)
Wong is the Jyutping, Yale and Hong Kong romanization of the Chinese surnames Huang () and Wang (), two ubiquitous Chinese surnames; Wang (), another common Chinese surname; and a host of other rare Chinese surnames, including Heng (), Hong (), Hong (), and Hong () Note that, while 汪 (Wang/Wung) could be distinguished by its tone, 黃 (Wong/Huang) and 王 (Wong/Wang) are homophones in Cantonese. To differentiate the two in conversation, 黃 (Wong/Huang) is customarily referred to by native Cantonese speakers as 黃河嘅黃 (Yellow River Wong), 黃金嘅黃 (yellow gold Wong), 大肚黃 (big belly Wong, as the character resembles a person with a big belly), or by native Mandarin speakers as "grass-head Wong" (due to its first radical), whereas 王 (Wong/Wang) is referred as the 三劃王 "three-stroke Wong" (due to its prominent 3 horizontal strokes) or the 'King' Wong (due to its meaning). Distribution In Taiwan, names are written using Chinese characters and are current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rama II Of Siam
Phra Phutthaloetla Naphalai ( th, พระพุทธเลิศหล้านภาลัย, 24 February 1767 – 21 July 1824), personal name Chim ( th, ฉิม), also styled as Rama II, was the second monarch of Siam under the Chakri dynasty, ruling from 1809 to 1824. In 1809, Itsarasunthon succeeded his father Rama I, the founder of Chakri dynasty, as Loetlanaphalai the King of Siam. His reign was largely peaceful, devoid of major conflicts. His reign was known as the "Golden Age of Rattanakosin Literature" as Loetlanaphalai was patron to a number of poets in his court and the King himself was a renowned poet and artist. The most notable poet in his employ was the illustrious Sunthorn Phu, the author of ''Phra Aphai Mani''. Early life Chim was born in 1767 during the Ayutthaya Kingdom in Amphawa District, Samut Songkram. Chim was a son of Luang Yokkrabat of Ratchaburi and Nak of Samut Sakorn, as his father and mother was then known. They would later become King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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