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Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom (or Kingdom of Ligor) was one of the major constituent city states (mueang
Mueang

Mueang , Muang , Mu?ng or Mong were semi-independent city-states or principalities in present-day Thailand, Laos and the Shan State of Myanmar....
) of the Siamese kingdoms of Sukhothai
Sukhothai kingdom

The Sukhothai kingdom was an early kingdom in the area around the city Sukhothai , in north central Thailand. It existed from 1238 till 1438. The old capital, now 12 km outside of New Sukhothai in Tambon Mueang Kao, is in ruins and is a Sukhothai historic park....
 and later Ayutthaya
Ayutthaya kingdom

The kingdom of Ayutthaya was a Thai people kingdom that existed from 1351 to 1767. Ayutthaya was friendly towards foreign traders, including the Han Chinese, Vietnamese , Indo-Aryans, Japanese people and Persians, and later the Portuguese people, Spanish people, Dutch and French people, permitting them to set up villages outside the city wa...
 and controlled a big part of the Malay peninsula
Malay Peninsula

The Malay Peninsula or Thai-Malay Peninsula is a major peninsula located in Southeast Asia. It is also known as the Kra Peninsula and runs approximately north-south through the Kra Isthmus....
. Thai histories record a Negara Sri Dharmaraja kingdom.

Most historians identify the Tambralinga
Tambralinga

Tambralinga was an ancient Malays kingdom located on the Malay Peninsula that at one time came under the influence of Srivijaya. The name had been forgotten until scholars recognized Tambralinga as Nakhon Si Thammarat....
 kingdom of Chinese records with a precursor of Nakhon Si Thammarat. The somewhat controversial Ramkhamhaeng stele of 1283 (or 1292) lists Nakhon Si Thammarat as one of the tributary kingdoms of Sukhothai.






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Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom (or Kingdom of Ligor) was one of the major constituent city states (mueang
Mueang

Mueang , Muang , Mu?ng or Mong were semi-independent city-states or principalities in present-day Thailand, Laos and the Shan State of Myanmar....
) of the Siamese kingdoms of Sukhothai
Sukhothai kingdom

The Sukhothai kingdom was an early kingdom in the area around the city Sukhothai , in north central Thailand. It existed from 1238 till 1438. The old capital, now 12 km outside of New Sukhothai in Tambon Mueang Kao, is in ruins and is a Sukhothai historic park....
 and later Ayutthaya
Ayutthaya kingdom

The kingdom of Ayutthaya was a Thai people kingdom that existed from 1351 to 1767. Ayutthaya was friendly towards foreign traders, including the Han Chinese, Vietnamese , Indo-Aryans, Japanese people and Persians, and later the Portuguese people, Spanish people, Dutch and French people, permitting them to set up villages outside the city wa...
 and controlled a big part of the Malay peninsula
Malay Peninsula

The Malay Peninsula or Thai-Malay Peninsula is a major peninsula located in Southeast Asia. It is also known as the Kra Peninsula and runs approximately north-south through the Kra Isthmus....
. Thai histories record a Negara Sri Dharmaraja kingdom.

Most historians identify the Tambralinga
Tambralinga

Tambralinga was an ancient Malays kingdom located on the Malay Peninsula that at one time came under the influence of Srivijaya. The name had been forgotten until scholars recognized Tambralinga as Nakhon Si Thammarat....
 kingdom of Chinese records with a precursor of Nakhon Si Thammarat. The somewhat controversial Ramkhamhaeng stele of 1283 (or 1292) lists Nakhon Si Thammarat as one of the tributary kingdoms of Sukhothai. In the Palatinate law of King Trailok dated 1468 Nakhon Si Thammarat was listed as one of 8 great cities (phraya maha nakhon) belonging to the Ayutthaya. Under king Naresuan
Naresuan

Naresuan was King of Siam from 1590 until his death in 1605. During his reign, Siam reached its greatest territorial extent....
 it became instead a first class province (mueang ek). After the fall of Ayutthaya Nakhon Si Thammarat enjoyed a short period of independence, but was quickly subdued by Taksin
Taksin

Somdet Phrachao Taksin Maharaj or Somdet Phrachao Krung Thonburi ; ; Teochew: D?nchao; was the first and only monarch of Thonburi kingdom....
 on his mission to reunite Siam.

With the thesaphiban reform of Prince Damrong Rajanubhab
Damrong Rajanubhab

Damrong Rajanubhab was the founder of the modern Thailand education system as well as the modern provincial administration. He was also a Autodidacticism historian, and one of the most influential intellectuals of his time....
 at the end of the 19th century the kingdom was finally fully absorbed into Siam. A new administrative entity named monthon
Monthon

A monthon was a country subdivision of Thailand in the beginning of the 20th century. They were created as a part of the thesaphiban administrative system, introduced by Prince Damrong Rajanubhab....
 (circle) was created, each supervising several provinces. Monthon Nakhon Si Thammarat
Monthon Nakhon Si Thammarat

The Monthon Nakhon Si Thammarat was an administrative subdivision of Thailand in the early 20th century. It covered the eastern part of Southern Thailand....
, established 1896, covered those areas on the east coast of the peninsula, i.e. the provinces Songkhla
Songkhla Province

Songkhla is the one of the southern Provinces of Thailand of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Satun Province, Phatthalung Province, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Pattani Province and Yala Province....
, Nakhon Si Thammarat
Nakhon Si Thammarat Province

Nakhon Si Thammarat is one of the southern Provinces of Thailand of Thailand, at the eastern shore of the Gulf of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Songkhla Province, Phatthalung Province, Trang Province, Krabi Province and Surat Thani Province....
 and Phatthalung
Phatthalung Province

Phatthalung is one of the southern Provinces of Thailand of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Songkhla Province, Satun Province and Trang Province....
.

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    Nakhon Si Thammarat

    Nakhon Si Thammarat is a town in southern Thailand, capital of the Nakhon Si Thammarat Province and the Amphoe Mueang Nakhon Si Thammarat. It is about 610 km south of Bangkok, on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula....
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