kingdom · Mainland Southeast Asia
Post-Angkorian Cambodia
Origins
After Ayutthaya's sack of Angkor around 1431, the Khmer court under Ponhea Yat moved south toward the Mekong and the Tonle Sap confluence, eventually settling at Phnom Penh. Under Ang Chan I in the 16th century the capital moved to Longvek, and later to Oudong.
Rule and society
The kingdom drew wealth from river trade at the Quatre Bras, with Chinese, Malay, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish merchants present. Theravada Buddhism replaced the older Hindu and Mahayana cults, and the Reamker version of the Ramayana flourished. Royal factions sought Siamese or Vietnamese backing, and Spanish adventurers intervened in the 1590s. Ayutthaya captured Longvek in 1594.
Decline and legacy
From the 17th century the Nguyen lords gained the Mekong delta, and in the 1830s Vietnam occupied Cambodia until a Siamese-Vietnamese settlement of the mid-1840s installed Ang Duong. His son Norodom accepted the French protectorate of Cambodia in 1863.
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- Post-Angkorian Cambodia was conquered by Ayutthaya Kingdom1594 CE
- Ha Tien Principality was a vassal of Post-Angkorian Cambodia1707 CE – 1708 CE
- Post-Angkorian Cambodia was a vassal of Rattanakosin Kingdom1794 CE – 1863 CE
- Post-Angkorian Cambodia was a vassal of Nguyen dynasty1813 CE – 1834 CE
- Post-Angkorian Cambodia was a province of Nguyen dynasty1834 CE – 1841 CE
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