Photograph of the Preah Vihear temple rename

• Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia

  

  The Khmer Rouge period (1975-1979) refers to the rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge political party over Cambodia, which the Khmer Rouge renamed as Democratic Kampuchea. The four-year period saw the death of approximately 2 million Cambodians ...

• Dark ages of Cambodia

  

  The Dark Ages of Cambodia, covers the history of Cambodia from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, a period of continued decline and territorial loss. Cambodia enjoyed a brief period of prosperity during the sixteenth century because its kings,...

• Colonial Cambodia

  

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  1863

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  Date dissolved:

  1887

  In 1863, Cambodia under king Norodom became a protectorate of France. In October 1887, the French announced the formation of the Union Indochinoise (Union of Indochina), which at that time comprised Cambodia, already an autonomous French possession,...

• Modern Cambodia

  

  After the fall of the Pol Pot regime of Democratic Kampuchea, Cambodia was under Vietnamese occupation and a pro-Hanoi government, the People's Republic of Kampuchea was established. A civil war raged during the 1980s opposing the government's...

• Chenla

  

  Chenla (Khmer: ចេនឡា), known as Zhenla (真腊) in Chinese and Chân Lạp in Vietnamese (which is the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation of 真腊), was an early Khmer kingdom. At first a vassal state to Funan (circa AD 550), over the next 60 years it achieved its...

• People's Republic of Kampuchea

  

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  1979

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  1993

  The People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) was founded after the overthrow of Democratic Kampuchea, the Khmer Rouge government. Brought about by an invasion from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which routed the Khmer Rouge armies, it had Vietnam...

• Khmer Krom

• Prasat Preah Vihear

• Cambodian coup of 1970

  

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  1970

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  1975

  The Cambodian coup of 1970 refers to the removal of the Cambodian Head of State, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, after a vote in the National Assembly on 18 March 1970. Emergency powers were subsequently invoked by the Prime Minister Lon Nol, who became...

• 2008 Cambodian-Thai stand-off

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