High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Politics
1013
Suryavarman I expands Khmer Empire into Thailand
1013
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.
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Also in 1013 (3 other events on record)
- Sweyn Forkbeard conquers England · Europe · War
- Al-Biruni measures the earth · Central Asia · Science
- Thietmar of Merseburg writes his Chronicle · Europe · Culture
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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