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unusual facts about Muang



Bombing of Bangkok in World War II

At the end of hostilities the RAF set up a headquarters in Bangkok, at Don Muang airfield, under Group Captain Don Finlay on September 9, 1945.

Kingdom of Champasak

In 1718, a Lao emigration in the company of an official in the service of King Nokasad founded Muang Suwannaphum as the first recorded population of Lao in the Chi River valley—indeed anywhere in the interior of the plateau.

Muang Phuan

The Tai Phuan or Phuan people are a Buddhist Tai-Lao ethnic group that migrated to Laos from southern China, and had by the 13th century formed the independent principality of Muang Phuan at the Plain of Jars, with Xieng Khouang (contemporary Muang Khoun) as the capital.

Muang Phuan was an historical principality on the territory of modern Xiangkhouang Province in Laos.

Nane

Nane District, a district (muang) of Luang Prabang Province in northern Laos

Nokasad

In 1718, the first Lao muang in the Chi valley — and indeed anywhere in the interior of the Khorat Plateau — was founded at Suwannaphum District in present-day Roi Et Province by an official in the service of this king.

Sip Song Chau Tai

Prior to the arrival of the French it was one of several semi-independent Tai hill tribe states called Muang, including Muang Sing, Hua Pan Tang Ha Tong Hoc in Laos, and China's Sip Song Panna.

Suwannaphum District

In 1718, the first Lao muang in the Chi valley — and indeed anywhere in the interior of the Khorat Plateau — was founded as Suwannaphum (in latter-day Roi Et Province) by an official in the service of King Nokasad of the Kingdom of Champasak, leading some 3,000 subjects.


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