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         Cambodian History:     more books (101)
  1. Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice by Ian Harris, 2008-03
  2. The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War, and Revolution since 1945 by Professor David P. Chandler, 1993-09-10
  3. Cambodian Linguistics, Literature and History: Collected Articles by Judith Jacob Jacobs, David Smyth, 1993-12-31
  4. From Freedom to Hell: A History of Foreign Interventions in Cambodian Politics and War by Punnee Soonthornpoct, 2006-03-01
  5. Cambodian: Webster's Timeline History, 613 - 2007 by Icon Group International, 2009-07-08
  6. A' History of Cambodian Non-communist Resistance 1975-1983 (Working Paper / Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash Un) by Justin J. Corfield, 2005-06-21
  7. Leaving the House of Ghosts: Cambodian Refugees in the American Midwest by Sarah Streed, 2002-08-26
  8. The Sun Maker 2009: The Art of Interview and Documenting History (Volume 1) by The Sun Maker Publishing House, Cambodian Handicraft Association for Landmine and Polio Disabled (CHA), et all 2010-01-05
  9. Not Just Victims: Conversations with Cambodian Community Leaders in the United States (Asian American Experience) by Audrey U. Kim, 2003-03
  10. Cambodian American Experiences: Histories, Communities, Cultures and Identities by Jonathan H. X. Lee, 2010-08-21
  11. Cambodian Refugees in Ontario: Resettlement, Religion, and Identity by Janet McLellan, 2009-11-21
  12. Lost Goddesses: Denial of Female Power in Cambodian History by Trudy Jacobsen, 2008-05-31
  13. Braving a New World: Cambodian (Khmer) Refugees in an American City (Contemporary Urban Studies) by Marycaro Hopkins, 1996-10-21
  14. To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family by JoAn D. Criddle, 1998-01-01

1. Beauty And Darkness: Cambodia In Modern History
cambodian history/Khmer Art and Culture/General Information. The links belowexamine various other aspects of cambodian history, culture and politics.
http://members.aol.com/cambodia/
Beauty and Darkness: Cambodia in Modern History:
Cambodian History/Khmer Art and Culture/General Information
This site is designed to provide information on the recent history of Cambodia, particulary the Khmer Rouge period. This includes not only materials pertaining to Cambodia, but information relating to Cambodian refugees and immigrants abroad, as well.
This site is now maintained at a different location. The new URL is www.mekong.net/cambodia . The revised site is part of the Mekong Network , a larger project dedicated to Southeast Asia in general. Articles on this server may be somewhat out-of-date. New files are added only to the main location of the site.
For information on current events in Cambodia, we recommend the Phnom Penh Post Online or the CNN web site.
The links below examine various other aspects of Cambodian history, culture and politics.
Introduction: The Unique Revolution

General Facts and Statistics about Cambodia

The Banyan Tree: Untangling Cambodian History

Oral Histories
...
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE LOST

Contributors to this site include Rachel Rinaldo Kim Seang Poam Elizabeth Chey Barbara Strnadova ... Thida Mam , Loung Ung, Bert Hoak Ray Zepp Aaron Levine Alan Knight ... Salatha Yost and James Yost , Aaron Elster, Pierre Henri Pairault , and Ven Yann . Additional contributions are greatly appreciated. The site is designed and maintained by Bruce Sharp . Last modified on 1/08/01.
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2. Cambodia In Modern History: Beauty And Darkness
cambodian history/Khmer Art and Culture/General Information
http://www.mekong.net/cambodia
Cambodian History/Khmer Art and Culture/General Information
This site is designed to provide information on the recent history of Cambodia, particulary the Khmer Rouge period. This includes not only materials pertaining to Cambodia, but information relating to Cambodian refugees and immigrants abroad, as well.
Articles here are organized by the categories listed below. Specific information can also be located by using the site search page . For information on current events in Cambodia, we recommend the Yahoo World News: Cambodia site, or the Phnom Penh Post Online
As this site is devoted to Cambodia, I will refrain from discussing the current war in Iraq on these pages. However, for anyone who is interested, my thoughts on Iraq are posted at http://www.veryrandom.com/iraq.htm
Introduction: The Unique Revolution

General Facts and Statistics about Cambodia

The Banyan Tree: Untangling Cambodian History
...
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE LOST

Contributors to this site include Rachel Rinaldo Kim Seang Poam Elizabeth Chey Barbara Strnadova ... Thida Mam , Loung Ung, Bert Hoak Ray Zepp Aaron Levine Emily Deacon ... Salatha Yost and James Yost , Aaron Elster, Khemarith Tep, Pierre Henri Pairault Socheat Som and Ven Yann . Additional contributions are greatly appreciated. The site is designed and maintained by Bruce Sharp . Last modified on 3/28/03.

3. Cambodian History
Cambodian music history. Little is known of this period, the most obscure in Cambodianhistory. This second eradication shocked and weakened the Cambodians.
http://research.umbc.edu/eol/cambodia/histcmus.htm
Cambodian music history
A distinction must be made between "music in Cambodia" and "Cambodian music," for the former embraces all ethnic groups within the national boundaries while the latter is limited to the majority, Cambodians. The northern provinces of Rattanakiri and Mundulkiri include hilly plateaus which are home to the Pnorng (Pnorng), an upland Mon-Khmer speaking group, while in the southwest along the Koulen and Cardamom ranges are found the Kuoy (Kui), Por, Samre, and other upland Mon-Khmer speakers. Their musical expression emphasizes gong ensembles, drum ensembles, and free-reed mouth organs with gourd windchests. In the west, around the great lake (Tonle Sap) live Cham, Chinese, Vietnamese, and other lowland minorities, but the extent to which these groups maintain their traditional musics is not largely known. Cambodian music flourished in both court and village settings, some associated with specific functions, others with entertainment. In villages weddings are celebrated with kar music, communication with spirits is accompanied by arakk music, and entertainments include

4. Cambodian History Contents Page
cambodian history. Source http//memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/khtoc.html
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/cambhist.htm
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Cambodia: A Country Study. R R Ross (ed.) Federal Research Division, 1987
Accessed 30 July 2001 [Only those parts of the report are reproduced here that most directly linked with the period of Khmer Rouge rule, 1975-78]

5. Beauty And Darkness: Cambodia In Modern History
Keywords Cambodia, cambodian history, Khmer History, Cambodian Politics, Cambodian culture, articles about Cambodia,
http://members.aol.com/bsharp26/cambodia
Beauty and Darkness: Cambodia in Modern History:
Cambodian History/Khmer Art and Culture/General Information
This site is designed to provide information on the recent history of Cambodia, particulary the Khmer Rouge period. This includes not only materials pertaining to Cambodia, but information relating to Cambodian refugees and immigrants abroad, as well.
If you've reached this page, you're following an outdated link. We're moving to a new location. The new Beauty and Darkness site can be found on the Mekong Network at www.mekong.net
Most of the original documents are still available here, but they may be somewhat out of date, and new files are being added only to the Mekong Network site.
For information on current events in Cambodia, we recommend the Phnom Penh Post Online or the CNN web site.
The links below examine various other aspects of Cambodian history, culture and politics.
Introduction: The Unique Revolution

General Facts and Statistics about Cambodia

The Banyan Tree: Untangling Cambodian History

Oral Histories
...
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE LOST

Contributors to this site include Rachel Rinaldo Elizabeth Chey,

6. Chronology Of Cambodian History, 1900-1919
Membership Badge Showcase Chronology of cambodian history, 19001909. YEAR. Month/Day/Year.1900 Jan. 16, 1900. Paul Louis Luce, interim Resident Superior. Oct.
http://www.geocities.com/khmerchronology/1900.htm
Chronology of Cambodian History, 1900-1909
YEAR Month/Day/Year
Jan. 16, 1900
Paul Louis Luce, interim Resident Superior. Oct. 05, 1900 Prince Yukanthor visits Paris. The prince, a favored son of king Norodom, travels to France and confronts the French government with a host of the King's complaints about the French authority in Cambodia. [ Learn more about the event - in French
The École Francaise d'Extreme-Orient sends its first mission to record and photograph the bas-reliefs of the Bayon. June 03, 1901 Leon Pol Jules Boulloche, Resident Superieur. July 17, 1902 Charles Pallier, interim Resident Superieur. Oct. 26, 1902 Henri Felix de Lamothe, Resident Superieur.
Feb. 13, 1904
French and Siam sign a treaty establishing the general character of the frontier between Cambodia and Siam (Thailand). A Franco-Siamese Mixed Commission will survey and draw an exact boundary.
May 25, 1904
King Norodom dies. His half-brother, Prince Sisowath, is elected by the Council of Regent and Resident Superieur to succeed the late king. [ About Sisowath in French Sept. 25, 1904

7. Cambodia: Beauty And Darkness - The Banyan Tree: Untangling Cambodian History
The Banyan Tree Untangling cambodian history. by Bruce Sharp Thebanyan tree grows throughout Cambodia. It may reach a height of
http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/banyan1.htm
The Banyan Tree: Untangling Cambodian History
by Bruce Sharp
The banyan tree grows throughout Cambodia. It may reach a height of over 100 feet, and as it grows, new roots descend from its branches, pushing into the ground and forming new trunks. The roots grow relentlessly; many of the ancient temples of Angkor have toppled as these roots have become embedded in the cracks and crevices between their massive stones. A single tree might have dozens of trunks, and it is often impossible to tell which is the original.
This is Cambodia today: a thousand intertwined branches, a thousand stories woven together, a thousand currents of history swirling in different directions. To understand Cambodia in the present, it is necessary to look at Cambodia in the past.

one:
The Seeds

In the early 1960s, to much of the outside world, Cambodia seemed to be an insignificant country. For Americans, it was known only as the site of the magnificent temples of Angkor Wat: a small, quiet nation sharing a border with Vietnam.
Vietnam, by contrast, was well known to Americans. The cold war was raging, and in the eyes of the American public the front line of that war was clearly marked by the boundary between the communists in the north, and the noncommunists in the South. South Vietnam was perceived as the first domino; Cambodia was merely the next. The subtleties of history, the blurred lines of political fact and fiction were lost in the analogy.

8. The Banyan Tree: Part One
Offers an indepth essay recounting the complex modern history of Cambodia. Details the rise of the Khmer Rouge.
http://users.aol.com/bsharp26/cambodia/banyan1.html
The Banyan Tree: Untangling Cambodian History
by Bruce Sharp
The banyan tree grows throughout Cambodia. It may reach a height of over 100 feet, and as it grows, new roots descend from its branches, pushing into the ground and forming new trunks. The roots grow relentlessly; many of the ancient temples of Angkor have toppled as these roots have become embedded in the cracks and crevices between their massive stones. A single tree might have dozens of trunks, and it is often impossible to tell which is the original.
This is Cambodia today: a thousand intertwined branches, a thousand stories woven together, a thousand currents of history swirling in different directions. To understand Cambodia in the present, it is necessary to look at Cambodia in the past.
one:
The Seeds
In the early 1960s, to much of the outside world, Cambodia seemed to be an insignificant country. For Americans, it was known only as the site of the magnificent temples of Angkor Wat: a small, quiet nation sharing a border with Vietnam.
Vietnam, by contrast, was well known to Americans. The cold war was raging, and in the eyes of the American public the front line of that war was clearly marked by the boundary between the communists in the north, and the noncommunists in the South. South Vietnam was perceived as the first domino; Cambodia was merely the next. The subtleties of history, the blurred lines of political fact and fiction were lost in the analogy.

9. Cambodian History
cambodian history. Migrations into the mainland regions of SoutheastAsia from the north continued well into historic times. The
http://research.umbc.edu/eol/cambodia/histcamb.htm
Cambodian history
Migrations into the mainland regions of Southeast Asia from the north continued well into historic times. The ancestors of the Cambodians came with earlier waves that followed in the wake of the proto-Malays. The Cambodians are closely related to the Mon who settled further to the west but of whom only small pockets survive in Thailand and Burma. According to conventional history based largely on Chinese sources, when the Cambodians arrived in presentday Cambodia, two powerful states had already been established there by people of the Malay stock Champa , controlling part of central and southern Vietnam, and Founan (Funan), sited in the southernmost part of Vietnam and most of presentday Cambodia. Founan was at the height of its power at the end of the fifth century A.D. Some scholars, such as Nasuruddin, believe that the court of Founan had Indian dance and music which spread to the other parts of the Kingdom (1992:2), but Chandler (1992:13ff) casts doubt on the reliability of the Chinese sources. It is believed that one of Founan's vassals was the Cambodian state of Chenla , situated in presentday northern Cambodia and southern Laos. By about the middle of the sixth century A.D., Chenla overcame Founan and reversed the pattern of overlord and vassal. About A.D. 627, Chenla completely absorbed Founan, during the reign of Isanvarman I who married a princess of the neighboring kingdom of Champa, and extended his domains westward until it bordered the Mon kingdom of Dvaravati (Cambodia 1969:104). Before the end of Jayavarman I's reign, Chenla was showing signs of breaking up. Civil war followed his death, and the country split into two parts: Land Chenla (northern part) and Water Chenla (southern part), and Cambodian power suffered an eclipse for more than a century.

10. InternetGuide: History
This page is a chronology of events happened in cambodian history.
http://internetguide.hypermart.net/guides/history3.html

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Chronology of Cambodian History http://members.aol.com/angkor12/ This page is a chronology of events happened in Cambodian history. Starting from the 1st century when State of Funan founded to today and still going! Digital Archive of Cambodian Holocaust Survivors http://www.cybercambodia.com/dachs/ an ad hoc group of people interested in documenting Cambodian survivor stories on the Internet Documentation Centre of Cambodia http://www.pactok.net.au/docs/dccam/dccam.htm From Side-show To Genocide http://edweb.gsn.org/sideshow/khmeryears/ The Faces of Angka, The Work, The Fall of the Khmer Rouge, all in the page Genocide in Cambodia and Laos http://home.earthlink.net/~laohumrights/laohdl21.html Claims that genocide is also happening in Laos with several hundred thousands people was killed History of Landmines http://www.iinet.net.au/~pictim/p7.htm One hundred million uncleared landmines lie in the fields and alongside the roads and footpaths of one-third of the countries in the developing world ICL - Cambodian Index http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/law/cb_indx.html

11. THE TRAGEDY OF CAMBODIAN HISTORY
THE TRAGEDY OF cambodian history Politics, War, and Revolution since 1945 DavidP. Chandler The Tragedy of cambodian history is a marvellous read.
http://www.yale.edu/yup/books/057520.htm
THE TRAGEDY OF CAMBODIAN HISTORY
Politics, War, and Revolution since 1945
David P. Chandler 1993 History
408 pp. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Paper ISBN 0-300-05752-0
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Reviews
In this penetrating and poignant book, David P. Chandler presents the first full account of Cambodian history from World War II up to 1979, focusing on the civil war period and the devastating revolutionary excesses of the Pol Pot regime. Drawing on his experience as a foreign service officer in Phnom Penh, on interviews, and on archival material, Chandler considers why the revolution happened and how it was related to Cambodia's earlier history and to other events in Southeast Asia. "An important and valuable book that provides a rounded view of the political, social, and economic scene in Cambodia."May Ebihara, City University of New York "A learned, solidly researched, unceasingly lucid narrative history of one of the fiercest and bloodiest and most puzzling of all twentieth-century revolutions. The author gracefully and persuasively emphasizes, not so much the evils of Cambodian political leaders, as their tragic inability to master or survive the gigantic historical forces with which they had to contend."Alexander Woodside, professor of Chinese and Southeast Asian history, University of British Columbia "A solid and refreshingly objective study that provides a healthy antidote to the usually tendentious or simplistic accounts. This is a masterful treatment, comprehensive in its coverage and deeply probing in its analysis, that will give readers much greater understanding of one of the most complex and disputatiously interpreted of modern tragediesone involving—(both covertly and openly) China, the Soviet Union, and the United States as well as Cambodia's neighbors. Drawing on Chandler's own field experience, and extensive range of interviews, and many previously untapped archival materials, this study provides new insights as to why and how Cambodia's long revolutionary process took place and why its course has been so strikingly bizarre."George McT. Kahin, professor of international studies emeritus, Cornell University

12. Cambodian History And Document
the Friends of Cambodia 23 November 1997; PARTICIPATION IN CAMBODIAN ELECTIONS5 CAMBODIA'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY A Contribution to the Study of
http://www.khmernet.com/docu.html
Cambodian Current and old event site on the Net
Last update 11/30/97
By SSim.
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  • Meeting Between ASEAN and the "Friends of Cambodia"
    23 November 1997
  • PARTICIPATION IN CAMBODIAN ELECTIONS
    5 November 1997
  • CAMBODIA: MEETING BETWEEN ASEAN AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
    29 September 1997
  • CAMBODIA'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY:
    A Contribution to the Study of Cambodia's Economy
    Sophal Ear
  • FAO - Forestry - Profile - Cambodia
  • Motor Disabled People in the Agricultural and Rural Sector in Cambodia
    Marc Bonnet
    Programme Director,
    Handicap International Phnom Penh, Cambodia
  • Boosting rice production in Cambodia
  • Cambodia produces a surplus rice crop despite widespread flooding GIEWS Special Report: Cambodia February 1997
  • TeleFood project pumps water in dry season in Cambodia
    Operation Red Rock A Book.
  • Society's Pliers The Cambodia Controversy By Michael Albert
    UNHCR: Cambodia
    Secrets, Lies and Democracy
  • 13. Cambodian History And Culture
    Cambodian Culrural event and site on the Net. Last update 11/30/97By SSim. Go back to Front Page Cambodia News Search Center THE
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    Cambodian Culrural event and site on the Net
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    THE SCULPTURES OF
    ANCIENT CAMBODIA

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    Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia
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    14. Cambodian History - Khmer Art And Culture - Quick Details From MuseumStuff.com
    cambodian history Khmer Art and Culture .. details page from MuseumStuff CambodianHistory - Khmer Art and Culture. OVERVIEW - This site is
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    MuseumStuff.com >> Cambodian History - Khmer Art and Culture Email this page Print Edit Cambodian History - Khmer Art and Culture OVERVIEW - This site is designed to provide information on the recent history of Cambodia, particulary the Khmer Rouge period. This includes not only materials pertaining to Cambodia, but information relating to Cambodian refugees and immigrants abroad, as well. - Includes extensive information and resources on the reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia ranks as one of the most disastrous in modern history. CLICK to ENTER THIS RESOURCE
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    Searched for .. virtual exhibit asia history. we found .. 3 links. Virual Exhibits.. 3 found, links. 1 .. cambodian history Khmer Art and Culture ..
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    16. Cambodian History
    man and his entourage against the background of postWorld War II events, providinga key to understanding this horrific, pivotal period of cambodian history.
    http://www.cambodiaadopt.com/cambodian_history.htm
    Click on the picture of the book to link to Amazon.com Beyond the Killing Fields
    by Kari Rene Hall, Josh Getlin (Contributor), Marshall Lumsden (Editor) Dith Pran. 1992 First They Killed My Father : A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
    This is a story of the triumph of a child's indomitable spirit over the tyranny of the Khmer Rouge; over a culture where children are trained to become killing machines. Loung's subsequent campaign against landmines is a result of witnessing first hand how her famished neighbors, after dodging soldier's bullets, risked their lives to traverse unmapped mine fields in search of food. Despite the heartache, I could not put the book down until I reached the end. When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him
    A wrenching, near-photographic memoir of life in the Khmer Rouge death camps through the eyes of a Cambodian child, whose soul grew quickly old. Now a young woman in Oregon, she writes her story with a poet's touch in her new language. It will inspire you. Cambodia : Report from a Stricken Land
    by Henry Kamm. 1992

    17. Cambodian History Resources At Questia - The Online Library Of
    cambodian history Resources at Questia The Online Library of Booksand Journals. The World's Largest Online Library. cambodian history.
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    18. Soul Survivors | Stories Of Women And Children In Cambodia
    Chronology of cambodian history 802 AD, Kingdom of Angkor is established.900 1200, Angkor Empire covers most of southeast Asia and
    http://www.efn.org/~bhavia/canvas-history-01.htm
    Chronology of Cambodian History 802 AD Kingdom of Angkor is established.
    Angkor Empire covers most of southeast Asia and is known for its beautiful temples and sculpture.
    Angkor declines due to warfare and loses territory to the Thais and the Vietnamese. Cambodian King Norodom reluctantly signs a treaty of protectorate with the French, which lasts until 1953. The movement for independence from foreign imperialism in Southeast Asia begins. Ho Chi Minh founds the Indochinese Communist Party. The French establish nineteen-year-old Prince Norodom Sihanouk as king. The Japanese occupy Cambodia during World War II. The war for independence in Vietnam begins as Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh army fights the French. Saloth Sar (Pol Pot) goes to study in France. Sihanouk wins Cambodia's independence from France. Saloth Sar (Pol Pot) becomes leader of Cambodia's Communist Party. US troops arrive in Vietnam. Sihanouk ends diplomatic relations with the United States. Cambodia loses tax revenues on rice that is smuggled into Vietnam during the war. Sihanouk increases the tax on remaining rice supplies, which spurs a peasant uprising and the armed communist revolution. Communists seek to eliminate widespread rural poverty and the corrupt ruling elite. President Nixon begins an illegal secret bombing of neutral Cambodia that continues until August 1973 when US Congress stops the Pentagon.

    19. CAMBODIA: Return To Year Zero - Simply... Cambodian History
    new internationalist issue 242 April 1993 Simply cambodian history.1 Magnificent beginnings All roads in cambodian history
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    new internationalist
    issue 242 - April 1993 Simply... Cambodian history 1 Magnificent beginnings
    All roads in Cambodian
    history lead to Angkor Wat – and Pol Pot was particularly conscious of trying to emulate the independent greatness that the temple city symbolized. 'If our people were capable of building Angkor,' he said, 'we can do anything.' Completed around 1150 and devoted to the Hindu god Vishnu, it remains the largest religious building the world has ever known. Legend has it that it was built not by human hands but by Indra, the Lord of Heaven, who sailed down to earth for the purpose. Actually its creation was ordered by King Suryavarman II, one of a series of Khmer monarchs, culminating in the most powerful of all, Jayavarman VII, whose preoccupation was with building monuments at home and pursuing the conquest of surrounding countries. The magnificent buildings we now see are legacies of the insatiable demands for forced labour and military service that these kings laid upon their people – and which had their twentieth-century echo in the Khmer Rouge. 2 Under French ‘protection’
    The abandonment of Angkor 3 Faith and fire
    Early Cambodia was
    largely Hindu in religion, though this was always mingled with a large measure of animism. There was a Mahayana Buddhist tradition too but when Buddhism eventually became established it was the Theravada strain (imported from Sri Lanka via Burma) which took hold.

    20. Cambodian History, Cambodian.com News, Cambodian News
    Cambodian.com, The purpose of this page is to bring the Cambodian around the worldclose together and share the intellectuals to help rebuild CAMBODIA.
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