Angkor Borei District
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Angkor Borei ( km, អង្គរបូរី, ) is a district located in Takéo Province, in southern
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. According to the 1998 census of Cambodia, it had a population of 44,980.


Administration

The district has 6 communes, 34 villages (as of 2019).


History

This ancient city was an important settlement of the
Kingdom of Funan Funan (; km, ហ៊្វូណន, ; vi, Phù Nam, Chữ Hán: ) was the name given by Chinese cartographers, geographers and writers to an ancient Indianized state—or, rather a loose network of states ''(Mandala)''—located in mainla ...
and may have been its capital. It may have been the Thinae, or Sinae Metropolis located by
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as the farthest known city to the east in his ''Geography''. The site was first excavated in 1996 and was again excavated in 1999 as part of the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project. During the 1996 excavation, the
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and the
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initiated the excavation and focused on the sociopolitical complexity from 500 BC to 500 AD. This first excavation, however, was just preliminary research. The first objectives were: 1) Documentation of the site's layout and the range of its archaeological features 2) Evaluation of the integrity of subsurface materials and description of the site's stratigraphy 3) Collection of samples for dating portions of the archaeological site 4) Reconstructing the hydrology and natural environment of the early historic period in this region In this site various archaeological methods were used such as surface survey and mapping, test excavations, auger sampling and coring, and trenching with a backhoe. Unfortunately, the archeological project was disturbed by looting and illicit trafficking of Khmer antiquities, which continues as a serious problem into the 21st century.Miriam T. Stark and P. Brion Griffin, “Archaeological Research and Cultural Heritage Management in Cambodia's Mekong Delta: The Search for the ‘Cradle of Khmer Civilization,’” in ''Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past'', ed. by Yorke Rowan and Uzi Baram, Walnut Creek, California: Altamira Press, 2004, 117–141. It is the birthplace of
Norodom Norodom ( km, នរោត្តម, ; born Ang Voddey ( km, អង្គវតី, ); 3 February 1834 – 24 April 1904) was King of Cambodia from 19 October 1860 to his death on 24 April 1904. He was the eldest son of King Ang Duong and was ...
, King of Cambodia from 1860 to 1904.


See also

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Angkor Borei and Phnom Da The ancient Funan sites of Angkor Borei ( km, អង្គរបុរី) and Phnom Da ( km, ភ្នំដា) are located in the Angkor Borei District, Takéo Province, of southern Cambodia. Webarchive template wayback links Funan Districts of Takéo province