Kingdom of Vientiane

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Approximate demarcation of the domains on the Southeast Asian mainland around 1750

The Kingdom of Vientiane was a Lao empire in what is now Vientiane . It was formed in 1707 due to continued throne disputes and in the course of the subsequent splitting up of the Kingdom of Lan Xang , with the Siamese Phrachao Suea mediating. The empire ended in 1828 when it was incorporated into Siam .

The first ruler was King Sai Setthathirath II , who had previously ruled Lan Xang from Vientiane. The geopolitical location between Siam and Annam (Vietnam) did not make life easy for the empire. From 1779 it was a vassal principality of Siam . Shortly after the accession to the throne of King Rama III. (r. 1824 to 1851) Siam was drawn into the conflict between Great Britain and Burma, which caused King Anuvong of Vientiane (r. 1805 to 1828) to revolt. Under the pretense of helping Siam with his troops, he marched on Bangkok and came to Saraburi , where he was repulsed, however. The superior Siamese put down the rebellion and General Bodindecha brought Anuvong to Bangkok before the king in 1828, where he was publicly tortured and executed. Then, unlike the other two Laotian states, Vientiane lost all independence. In 1893, Siam Vientiane ceded to France and it became a province of the French Indochina colony .

Kings of Vientiane (1707-1828)

It was tribute to Siam , its powerful neighbor to the south.

• 1707-1730 Sai Setthathirath II.
• 1730-1767 Ong Long
• 1767–1778 Bunsan , 1st government
• 1778–1780 Interregnum under the Siamese governor Phaya Supho
• 1780–1781 Bunsan , 2nd government
• 1781-1795 Nanthesan
• 1792-1805 Inthavong
• 1805-1828 Anuvong

See also

• List of rulers of Laos

literature

• Marc Askew, Colin Long, William Logan: Vientiane. Transformations of a Lao Landscape . Routledge 2006, ISBN 978-0-415-33141-8
• Michael Vickery: Two Historical Records of the Kingdom of Vientiane. In: Contesting Visions of the Lao Past. Laos Historiography at the Crossroads. NIAS Press, Copenhagen 2003, ISBN 87-91114-02-0 , pp. 3-34.