Siam (Hu)

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Chinese Name: 
暹羅斛
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Phonetically "Xian-luo" or "Xian-luo-hu". The latter term is used only during the 14th century. This is the polity, known to historiography as Ayudhya/Ayutthaya, created through the merger of the two polities recorded in Chinese texts as "Xian" and "Luo-hu". It was apparently centred on what is today the city of the same name in Thailand. For some relevant literature, see Coedes (1966; 139-171), Frankfurter (1909), Grimm (1961), Mills (1970; 102-08), Tibbetts (1979; 211-14, 220-23, 235-37), Mabbett (n.d.), Wade (1993), Wang Gungwu 1968 and 1970), Wyatt (1973 and 1994) and Vickery (1977 and 1979).

For information on further Chinese sources relating to this polity, see Chen, Xie and Lu (1986; 844-46, 1037).

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