Lavo Kingdom

The Lavo Kingdom (Thai: อาณาจักรละโว้) was a mandala in the lower Chao Phraya basin from the 7th century until 1388. Its centre was Lavapura until the 1080s, when it moved to Ayodhya (Xiān). Ayodhya and Lavo sent separate embassies to the Chinese court in the late 1200s, so the two may have been distinct states.

Before the 9th century Lavo was one of the supra-regional centres of the mandala-style polities of Dvaravati, with Si Thep, , Phimai and Nakhon Pathom. Climate change and invasion from neighbouring polities reduced several of those centres, and the mandalas of the Menam valley then fell into three groups. Lavo (modern Lopburi) lay to the east, in closer contact with the Angkorian and pre-Angkorian worlds; Suphannaphum (modern Suphanburi) to the west, in closer contact with the Mon and Malay worlds; and the northern polities, more mixed than either in culture, ethnicity and language. Meanwhile, the Mun–Chi mandalas allied with Kambujadesa in the Tonlé Sap basin.