Mueang Sing Historical Park
Mueang Sing Historical Park ( Thai : อุทยาน ประวัติศาสตร์ เมือง สิงห์ spoken: [ ʔùttʰáʔjaːn pràʔwàttìʔsàːt mɯaŋ sǐŋ ], English: Mueang Sing Historical Park ) is a historical park in Kanchanaburi province in central Thailand . Mueang Sing means "City of Lions".
location
The historic settlement Sing is located in Amphoe Sai Yok , community singing, about 49 kilometers from Kanchanaburi or 175 kilometers from Bangkok removed.
The city is picturesquely situated between mountains of limestone on the banks of the Mae Nam Khwae Noi (Khwae Noi River) , where the river banks come closer together and the flow velocity of the Mae Nam Khwae Noi increases.
investment
The city area is surrounded by an imposing city wall that is around five meters high and covers an area of 800 m by 1,500 meters. Most of the city wall is rectangular and straight, the part to the south follows the loop of Mae Nam Khwae Noi. Trenches and earth walls serve to control the water system and were also part of the fortification in the past.
Today you can still find Prasat Mueang Sing on the site , which is architecturally reminiscent of the facilities in Lop Buri and is located in the city center. There are also other building complexes, which are also mainly made up of laterite blocks and are in the Khmer style. However, since the usual architectural subtleties of the Khmer buildings are missing here, it can also be a matter of a system of the local population that imitated the style of the occupying power of the time.
history
Mueang Sing is an ancient Khmer settlement whose empire stretched across what is now Thailand from the 9th to the 14th centuries . The city was on its western border.
The architectural style suggests that the current complex dates from the late period of the local Khmer Empire, probably the reign of King Jayavarman VII (1181-1220), in whose honor a stone stele was erected that mentions 23 cities of the empire, including Srichaya Singhapura . It is believed that this was the western outpost of the Khmer Empire at the time of its greatest expansion.
The name is not found in the official city lists of Ayutthaya. Only under King Phra Phutthayotfa Chulalok (Rama I) did life return to the area. A border settlement was established on the Siamese-Burmese border. King Mongkut (Rama IV.) Bestowed the title of Phra Saming Sing Burin (Thai: พระ สมิง สิงห์ บุรินทร์ ) on the local rulers of the city . King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) had Mueang Sing set up as a tambon (community) as part of his national territorial reform .
In 1985 prehistoric graves were found during repair and cleaning work, in which not only human skeletons but also completely preserved pots and objects made of bronze were found.
Web links
- Description with pictures and map. Archived from the original on October 8, 2007 ; accessed on July 30, 2015 .
Coordinates: 14 ° 2 ′ 25 ″ N , 99 ° 14 ′ 29 ″ E