Late Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Politics
1353
Fa Ngum founds the Kingdom of Lan Xang in Laos
1353
A Lao prince raised in the Khmer court returned with a Cambodian army and Theravada monks to unify the Mekong valley's fractured muang into a single kingdom, the Land of a Million Elephants. He brought with him the Phra Bang, a golden Buddha image that became the kingdom's sacred palladium. Lan Xang would endure for three centuries, its kings balancing between Siam, Vietnam, and Burma.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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