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Yasodharapura was the first capital of the Khmer empire
Khmer Empire

The Khmer Empire was the largest empire of South East Asia based in what is now Cambodia. The empire, which seceded from the kingdom of Chenla, at times ruled over and/or vassalised parts of modern-day Laos, Thailand,Vietnam, Myanmar, and Malaysia....
 to be built at the Angkor
Angkor

Angkor is a name conventionally applied to the region of Cambodia serving as the seat of the Khmer empire that flourished from approximately the ninth century to the fifteenth century A.D....
 site. The city was built during the reign of King Yasovarman
Yasovarman

Yasovarman I was an Khmer Empire king who reigned from AD 889-910....
 I (reigned 899-917 AD) after the palace in the previous capital at Roluos was burned during his struggle to consolidate power upon the death of the previous king, his father.

Succeeding capitals built in the area were also called Yasodharapura, which, when translated from the Sanskrit, conveys the meaning of "Holy City" or, by extension, "Capital City".






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Yasodharapura was the first capital of the Khmer empire
Khmer Empire

The Khmer Empire was the largest empire of South East Asia based in what is now Cambodia. The empire, which seceded from the kingdom of Chenla, at times ruled over and/or vassalised parts of modern-day Laos, Thailand,Vietnam, Myanmar, and Malaysia....
 to be built at the Angkor
Angkor

Angkor is a name conventionally applied to the region of Cambodia serving as the seat of the Khmer empire that flourished from approximately the ninth century to the fifteenth century A.D....
 site. The city was built during the reign of King Yasovarman
Yasovarman

Yasovarman I was an Khmer Empire king who reigned from AD 889-910....
 I (reigned 899-917 AD) after the palace in the previous capital at Roluos was burned during his struggle to consolidate power upon the death of the previous king, his father.

Succeeding capitals built in the area were also called Yasodharapura, which, when translated from the Sanskrit, conveys the meaning of "Holy City" or, by extension, "Capital City". The first Yasodharapura was built around Phnom Bakheng
Phnom Bakheng

Phnom Bakheng at Angkor, Cambodia, is a Hindu temple in the form of a Architecture of Cambodia#Temple mountain. Dedicated to Shiva, it was built at the end of the 9th century, during the reign of King Yasovarman ....
, also referred to in inscriptions as Phnom Kandal (Central Mountain), constructed just before the foundation of the city due to Yasovarman's belief that the mountain was among the holiest of places to worship the Hindu deities.