Suryavarman I expands Khmer Empire into Thailand

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The Khmer king pushed his armies westward into the Chao Phraya basin, nearly doubling the number of cities under Angkor's control from twenty to fifty. He built the mountain-top temple of Preah Vihear on a cliff overlooking the Cambodian plain, a sandstone assertion of divine kingship perched on the edge of the sky.