Siam (disambiguation)
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Siam is an exonym that was used as the name of Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

 before 24 June 1939 and again from 8 September 1945 to 20 July 1949; see History of Thailand
History of Thailand
Tai peoples who originally lived in southwestern China, migrated into mainland Southeast Asia over a period of many centuries. The oldest known mention of their existence in the region by the exonym Siamese is in a twelfth-century A.D. inscription at the Khmer temple complex of Angkor Wat in...

. The historical kingdoms referred to by the name Siam include:
  • Ayutthaya Kingdom
    Ayutthaya kingdom
    Ayutthaya was a Siamese kingdom that existed from 1350 to 1767. Ayutthaya was friendly towards foreign traders, including the Chinese, Vietnamese , Indians, Japanese and Persians, and later the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and French, permitting them to set up villages outside the walls of the...

     (1351–1767)
  • Thonburi Kingdom
    Thonburi Kingdom
    Thon Buri was the capital of Siam for a short time during the reign of King Taksin the Great, after the ruin of capital Ayutthaya by the Burmese. King Rama I removed the capital to Bangkok on the other side of the Chao Phraya River in 1782...

     (1768–1782)
  • Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–present)


Siam may also refer to:
  • Siam area
    Siam area
    Siam district is a de facto district/neighborhood in Bangkok, roughly corresponding with of Thai Royal Family estate, of which leased on either side of Rama I Road and where vast and upscale shopping complexes currently are , and home to of the Sra Pathum Palace...

     in Bangkok, the neighbourhood surrounding Siam Square and several shopping centres within the vicinity which bear Siam as part of their names
    • Siam Skytrain Station, which serves this area
  • Rue de Siam
    Rue de Siam
    The Rue de Siam is the main arterial street of Brest. Its name comes from the arrival of three ambassadors led by Kosa Pan, sent by the King of Siam on the 29th of June 1686 to meet Louis XIV in Versailles. They went with six mandarins, three translators, two secretaries and a retinue of servants,...

    (Siam Street) in Brest, France


SIAM may refer to:
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
    Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
    The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics was founded by a small group of mathematicians from academia and industry who met in Philadelphia in 1951 to start an organization whose members would meet periodically to exchange ideas about the uses of mathematics in industry. This meeting led...

  • Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers
    Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers
    The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers is the apex industry body representing 38 leading vehicle and vehicular engine manufacturers in India....

    , an organization representing automobile manufacturers in India
  • Siam di Tella
    Siam di Tella
    Siam Di Tella was an Argentine manufacturing company; the name Siam is an acronym from Sección Industrial Amasadoras Mecánicas.-Early years:...

    , an Argentine company founded by Torcuato di Tella in 1911
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