Don Chedi district

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Don Chedi
ดอนเจดีย์
Province: Suphan Buri
Surface: 252,081 km²
Residents: 45,839 (2013)
Population density : 177.2 U / km²
ZIP : 72170, 72250
Geocode : 7206
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Map of Suphan Buri, Thailand, with Don Chedi

Amphoe Don Chedi ( Thai : อำเภอ ดอนเจดีย์ , pronunciation: ʔāmpʰɤ̄ː dɔ̄ːn tɕēːdīː ) is a district ( amphoe - administrative district) in the west of the province of Suphan Buri . Suphan Buri is located in the western part of the central region of Thailand .

geography

Neighboring districts are clockwise from the north: Nong Ya Sai , Sam Chuk , Si Prachan , Mueang Suphan Buri and U Thong and Amphoe Lao Khwan of Kanchanaburi province .

Products

The OTOP product ( One Tambon One Product ) of this district are woven baskets and bags made of raffia and rice straw.

history

The area of ​​the county was originally part of the Si Prachan district . On January 1, 1962, Don Chedi was initially set up as a subdistrict ( King Amphoe ) . At that time it consisted of the two tambon Don Chedi and Nong Sarai. On July 27, 1965, Don Chedi was promoted to Amphoe.

Attractions

The Don Chedi Monument is a new, snow-white chedi that was built over the ruins of a chedi that was only discovered in 1913 by Prince Damrong Rajanubhab after decades of searching. It is said to have been built by King Naresuan after he was able to successfully repel an attack by the Burmese Crown Prince in a historic battle in January 1593 - barely having become King of Ayutthaya. In his honor, Silpa Bhirasri created a huge statue of the king on his war elephant, which can be admired in front of the chedi. The seal of the province of Suphan Buri also shows the two regents fighting an elephant against an elephant. Every year on January 25th, the Royal Thai Armed Forces Day is celebrated here for seven days with the "Don Chedi Memorial Fair". Historical exhibitions, light-and-sound shows and beauty contests, live music and singing competitions will be featured during the celebrations.

War memorial in Don Cedi
King Naresuan defeated the Burmese Crown Prince in January 1593 (statue in Mueang Boran , Samut Prakan Province )

controversy

According to the official version of Don Chedi, King Naresuan is said to have destroyed the Burmese and built a chedi over the remains of the Burmese crown prince. At least that is how the Thai amateur historian and archaeologist Prince Damrong Rajanubhab described it in his book Tamnan Phra Phuttha Chedi Sayam in 1926 . He relies on a chronicle that a certain Luang Prasoet Aksornit (later called Phra Pariyati Dharmadhata ) found in a private house in 1907 , and which is said to have been written in the last years of the Ayutthaya Kingdom. The seven chronicles found again after the destruction of Ayutthaya are not very informative as to where exactly this historical battle is supposed to have taken place. Only the Luang Prasoet version mentions Suphan Buri as a place, more precisely Nong Sarai in the Phang Tru district (Taphang Tru). In a search initiated by Prince Damrong, the ruins of a chedi in what is now the Amphoe Don Chedi were found, which had a square base of 10 wah (20 m) and a height of six wah (12 m). Old people nearby were interviewed and told of an elephant duel. That was enough for Prince Damrong to inform King Vajiravudh of his investigation, whereupon the king officially recognized the ruin as the one built by King Naresuan.

Recent research by the art historian and chairman of the Siam Society Piriya Krairiksh, however, casts doubt on this representation. For him, for example, it is implausible if the Luang Prasoet version gives exact times such as: "On Sunday the 9th day of the 2nd increasing mode at 10.12 am ...". It is very unlikely that the king had taken an astrologer into battle with him who had the leisure to be able to make such precise time calculations. Other Thai sources ( Phongsawadan Nuea - "Chronicle of the North") confuse King Naresuan, who grew up as a hostage in Burma and therefore had a Burmese title, with the Burmese Crown Prince Hamsavati.

Chedi Phu Khao Thong near Ayutthaya

Furthermore, Prince Damrong had failed to consult other contemporary sources written by foreigners who had been in Ayutthaya at the time. Mention should be made of the Dutch VOC director Jeremias Van Vliet , who lived in the Siamese capital from 1633 to 1641. He reported as early as 1636 and again in 1640 in his Short History of the Kings of Siam of the battle of Phra Naret (Naresuan) against the Burmese, which is said to have taken place "at the gates of the capital Ayutthaya", namely "half a mile above the City". The imposing Chedi Phu Khao Thong is still located there today . The likelihood that the Chedi Phu Khao Thong was built by King Naresuan to commemorate his victory over the Burmese prince is further enhanced by a comparison with dates given by the German explorer Engelbert Kaempfer in his Description of the Kingdom of 1690 Siam did.

Even Francis H. Giles describes in his article A critical analysis of Van Vliet's Historical Account on Siam in the 17th Century that Burmese sources of a battle write "outside the city walls of Ayutthaya," which coincides with Van Vliet information.

For Piriya Krairiksh it is certain that Prince Damrong was wrong and that the real Chedi of King Naresuan is the Chedi Phu Khao Thong north of Ayutthaya.

administration

Provincial Administration

Don Chedi County is divided into five tambon ("subdistricts" or "municipalities"), which are further subdivided into 50 muban ("villages").

No. Surname Thai Muban Pop.
01. Don Chedi ดอนเจดีย์ 09 14,634
02. Nong Sarai หนอง สาหร่าย 10 07,724
03. Rai red ไร่ รถ 10 07,398
04th Sa Krachom สระ กระโจม 09 08,682
05. Thale Bok ทะเล บก 12 07,401

Local administration

There are two municipalities with "small town" status ( Thesaban Tambon ) in the district:

  • Don Chedi (Thai: เทศบาล ตำบล ดอนเจดีย์ ) consisting of parts of the Tambon Don Chedi.
  • Sa Krachom (Thai: เทศบาล ตำบล สระ กระโจม ) consisting of parts of the tambon Sa Krachom.

There are also five " tambon administration organizations " ( องค์การ บริหาร ส่วน ตำบล - Tambon Administrative Organizations, TAO)

  • Don Chedi (Thai: องค์การ บริหาร ส่วน ตำบล ดอนเจดีย์ ) consisting of parts of the Tambon Don Chedi.
  • Nong Sarai (Thai: องค์การ บริหาร ส่วน ตำบล หนอง สาหร่าย ) consisting of the complete Tambon Nong Sarai.
  • Rai red (Thai: องค์การ บริหาร ส่วน ตำบล ไร่ รถ ) consisting of the complete Tambon Rai red.
  • Sa Krachom (Thai: องค์การ บริหาร ส่วน ตำบล สระ กระโจม ) consisting of parts of the tambon Sa Krachom.
  • Thale Bok (Thai: องค์การ บริหาร ส่วน ตำบล ทะเล บก ) consisting of the complete Tambon Thale Bok.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ประกาศ กระทรวง มหาดไทย เรื่อง การ แบ่ง ท้องที่ ตั้ง เป็น กิ่ง อำเภอ . In: Royal Gazette . 79, No.  4 ง , January 9 1962, pp. 32-33.
  2. ↑ พระราชกฤษฎีกา ตั้ง อำเภอ ศรีสวัสดิ์ อำเภอ สังขละบุรี อำเภอ ท่าคันโท อำเภอ ดอกคำใต้ อำเภอ แม่ใจ อำเภอ จุน อำเภอ ขามทะเลสอ อำเภอ ไพศาลี อำเภอ ท่าวังผา อำเภอ บ้านกรวด อำเภอ เด่นชัย เด่นชัย อำเภอ ปทุมรัตต์ อำเภอ กะเปอร์ อำเภอ อากาศอำนวย อำเภอ ดอนเจดีย์ อำเภอ จอมพระ และ อำเภอ สามโก้ พ.ศ. ๒๕๐๘ . In: Royal Gazette . 81, No.  49 ก , July 27 1965, pp. 565-569.
  3. ↑ Prince Damrong Rajanubhab: Tamnan phutthachedi sayam. 1926 (English: A History Of Buddhist Monuments In Siam ) Translated by Sulak Sivaraksa , Siam Society, Bangkok 1962, oh. ISBN
  4. ^ Oskar Frankfurter : Events In Ayutthaya From Chulasakaraj 686-966 , in: The Siam Society Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Publication - Selected Articles From The Siam Society Journal , Vol. I. (1904-29), The Siam Society, Bangkok 1954, oh. ISBN
  5. ↑ Piriya Krairiksh: A Revised Dating of Ayutthaya Architecture (II) . In: The Journal Of The Siam Society , Vol. 80, Part 2, The Siam Society, Bangkok 1992, ISSN  0857-7099 , online: www.siamese-heritage.org (PDF, last accessed on October 31, 2012; 1, 4 MB).
  6. ^ David K. Wyatt , Chris Baker , Dhiravat na Pombejra, Alfon van der Kraan: Van Vliet's Siam. Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai 2005, ISBN 974-9575-81-4 .
  7. ^ Francis H. Giles: A critical analysis of Van Vliet's Historical Account on Siam in the 17th Century. Siam Society, Bangkok 1938
  8. ↑ 2013 population statistics ( Thai ) Department of Provincial Administration. Retrieved September 20, 2014.

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Coordinates: 14 ° 38 '  N , 100 ° 1'  E