kingdom · Mainland Southeast Asia
Suphannaphum
Origins
Suphannaphum emerged as a Tai polity around Suphanburi in the 12th century, in an area earlier settled by Dvaravati communities. Chinese records of missions from Xian, often taken to mean this region, suggest a growing Thai power in the lower Chao Phraya by the late 13th century.
Rule and society
The kingdom was based on rice farming and trade along the western rivers. Its royal house, sometimes called the Suphannaphum dynasty, intermarried with Lavo. After U Thong founded Ayutthaya in 1351, Khun Luang Pa-ngua of Suphanburi, his brother-in-law, seized the Ayutthaya throne in 1370 as Borommarachathirat I and campaigned against Sukhothai.
Decline and legacy
Suphannaphum effectively merged with Ayutthaya, whose kings from Intharacha onward were of its line. In 1438 Borommarachathirat II absorbed the Sukhothai Kingdom, and Suphanburi became a provincial city of Ayutthaya. Its rulers had thus shaped the core of the later Siamese state.
Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.
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