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    Lan Xang ([lâːn sâːŋ]) or Lancang was a Lao kingdom that held the area of present-day Laos from 1353 to 1707. For three and a half centuries, Lan Xang...
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    Việt–Lan Xang War of 1479–80, also known as the White Elephant War, was a military conflict precipitated by the invasion of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang by...
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    Laos (section Lan Xang)
    architecture. The country traces its historic and cultural identity to Lan Xang, which ruled as one of the largest kingdoms in Southeast Asia from the...
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    political source of Lao history and cultural identity is the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang, which during its apogee emerged as one of the largest kingdoms in Southeast...
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    which included much of modern-day Myanmar, the Chinese Shan states, Lan Na, Lan Xang, Manipur and Siam. Although he is best remembered for his empire building...
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  • (ສຸຣິຍະວົງສາທັມມິກຣາດ [sū.lī(ʔ).ɲā wóŋ.sǎː tʰám.mīk.râːt]) was the king of Lan Xang whose reign is considered the golden age of Laos. He ascended to the throne...
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    hill central to the city’s skyline. It served as the royal capital of the Lan Xang Kingdom (14th–18th century) and later the Kingdom of Laos until 1975. With...
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    Vientiane (category 16th century in Lan Xang)
    population of 840,000 as of the 2023 Census. Established as the capital of the Lan Xang Kingdom in 1563, Vientiane served as the administrative center during French...
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    Laos exists in truncated form from the thirteenth-century Lao kingdom of Lan Xang, which existed as a unified kingdom from 1357 to 1707, divided into the...
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  • Fa Ngum (category Kings of Lan Xang)
    the site of present-day Luang Prabang, and founded the Lan Xang Hôm Khao (better known as Lan Xang) kingdom in Laos in 1353. Fa Ngum was a grandson of Souvanna...
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  • Lan Kham Deng (Lao: ພະເຈົ້າລ້ານຄຳແດງ, 1375–1428) was the third king of the Lao state of Lan Xang. He was the oldest son of Samsenethai.[citation needed]...
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    next decade keeping the empire intact, putting down rebellions in Siam, Lan Xang and the northernmost Shan states. From 1576 onwards, he declared a large...
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    after the capitulation of Lan Na to the Burmese, leading many courtiers and people to flee to safety to Lan Xang. Lan Xang was religiously diverse, with...
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  • chronicle of the Mon people. He died in exile after having failed to reconquer Lan Xang. Little is known about his early life except that he was an ethnic Mon...
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    Chaiyasettha of Lan Xang. Chaiyasettha moved to Lan Na and thus Lan Na was ruled by a Laotian king. In 1547, Prince Chaiyasettha returned to Lan Xang to claim...
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  • Nawrahta Minsaw (category Monarchs of Lan Na)
    having defeated a 1595–96 invasion by Lan Xang on his own. From 1599 onward, he was forced to deal with a Lan Xang backed rebellion in Nan, and a Siam-backed...
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    Lan Xang. Ayutthaya established a presence at Nakhon Ratchasima and Phimai. However, the bulk of the Khorat Plateau fell into the mandala of Lan Xang...
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    Setthathirath (category Kings of Lan Xang)
    Throughout the 1560s until his death, he successfully defended his kingdom of Lan Xang against military campaigns of Burmese conqueror Bayinnaung, who had already...
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    conflating the terms. The Lao people trace their historical roots to the Lan Xang Kingdom (14th–18th century), a major Southeast Asian power that solidified...
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    emperor Lê Trang Tông during exile at Xam Neua, a territory of Kingdom of Lan Xang. After several years of civil war, most of the southern provinces of Đại...
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    time, in addition to including Manipur, Chinese Shan States, Siam and Lan Xang. The empire collapsed in the 18 years following Bayinnaung's death in 1581...
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    Metropole Orkest (Rotterdam 2022) I Want More (Edition Records, 2023) Lan Xang with David Binney, Scott Colley, Jeff Hirschfield (1998) Hidden Gardens...
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    1478 to 1480, Lê Thánh Tông led an expedition against the kingdoms of Lan Xang and Lanna in today Laos and Northern Thailand. Laotians were overwhelmed...
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  • expedition, and put his nominee on the Lan Xang throne in November 1574. Aside from a minor rebellion in 1579, Lan Xang gave no trouble for the rest of Bayinnaung's...
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    Vientiane was formed in 1707 as a result of the split of the Kingdom of Lan Xang. The kingdom was a Burmese vassal from 1765 to 1779. It then became a Siamese...
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    Ayutthaya, which became a Burmese vassal state. Burma then moved towards Lan Xang, occupying the country for a short period of time until retreating in 1570...
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    Takeda Nobukado, Japanese samurai (b. 1529) Sen Soulintha, Laotian king of Lan Xang (b. 1511) "The foundation of the university in 1582", Universität Würzburg...
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    history of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang as a structure of loosely held together mueang that disintegrated after Lan Xang's conquest by Thailand starting...
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    Muang Phuan. In the mid-14th century Muang Phuan was incorporated into the Lan Xang Kingdom under King Fa Ngum. Under the Mandala model, cities or even kingdoms...
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    Thailand (Isan and Lanna), which share historical ties with the former Lan Xang Kingdom. Variants of larb also appear in the cuisines of other Tai-speaking...
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