Funan Kingdom (1st century AD – 550)

Main article: Kingdom of Funan

Map of Funan at around the 3rd century.

Chinese annals^[35] contain detailed records of the first known organised polity, the thalassocratic^[36] Kingdom of Funan, on Cambodian and Vietnamese territory characterised by "high population and urban centers, the production of surplus food...socio-political stratification [and] legitimized by Indian religious ideologies".^[37][38] Centered around the lower Mekong and Bassac rivers from the first to sixth century C.E. with "walled and moated cities"^[39] such as Angkor Borei in Takeo

Prehistory and early history

Main article: Early history of Cambodia

Map of 'red soil' circular earthworks in Cambodia and Vietnam.

Carbon 14 dating of a cave at Laang Spean in Battambang Province, northwest Cambodia confirmed the presence of Hoabinhian stone tools from 6000-7000 BC and pottery from 4200 BC.^[26][27]

History of Cambodia 2

The history of Cambodia, a country in mainland Southeast Asia, can be traced back to at least the 5th millennium BC.^[1] Detailed records of a political structure on territory, what is now modern day Cambodia first appear in Chinese annals in reference to Funan, a polity that encompassed the

The History of Angkor.

" Angkor is the name of the ancient city where the groups of temples were built, Angkor Wat is the name of a grestest temple in Angkor. "

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Phnom Penh | History | Cambodia - Canby Publications

A Brief History of Phnom Penh

 

Chaktomuk...

People have inhabited parts of Southeast Asia since the early Stone Age, and the ancestors of the Khmer people have been in the area for at least 5000 years, perhaps much longer, but there is no firm evidence of settlements in the Phnom Penh area prior to about 2000 years ago. Though probably an active settlement in Cambodia's golden age of Angkor (9th-15th century AD,) Phnom Penh does not enter the historical record until after it became the Khmer capital in the mid 15th century AD. At the time it was known as Chaktomuk - the 'Four Faces' - so called for its location at the four-branched confluence of the Mekong River. The chaktomuk is a riverine crossroads in the heart of Cambodia with the Tonle Sap River running northwest to the old Angkorian capital, the Mekong River north to Laos and branches south to the delta and the South China Sea. Phnom Penh

បុណ្យកឋិនទាន​ part 1

Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia

The Khmer Rouge period (1975–1979) refers to the rule of Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Khieu Samphan and the Communist Party of Kampuchea over Cambodia, which the Khmer Rouge renamed as Democratic Kampuchea.
The four-year period cost approximately 2 million lives through the combined result of political executions, disease, starvation, and forced labor.^[1][2][3][4] Due to the large numbers, the deaths during the rule of the Khmer Rouge are commonly known as the Cambodian Holocaust or Cambodian genocide. The Khmer Rouge took power at the end of the Cambodian Civil War and were only toppled after the invasion of Cambodia by the neighbouring Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. Most of Cambodia remained under Vietnamese occupation for over a decade.