Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom
Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom อาณาจักรนครศรีธรรมราช Anachak Nakhon Si Thammarat | |||||||||
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| 13th century–1782 | |||||||||
Nakhon Si Thammarat (blue) as a vassal state of Ayutthaya in 1603 | |||||||||
| Status | Vassal State of the Sukhothai Kingdom (c. 1283–1298), Ayutthaya Kingdom (16th century–1767), Thonburi Kingdom (1769–1782), and Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782) | ||||||||
| Capital | Nakhon Si Thammarat (Ligor) | ||||||||
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| Religion | Theravada Buddhism (dominant), Islam, Hinduism | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
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• 1283 | Sri Thammasokaraj | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages, Early modern period | ||||||||
• Establishment of a Tai kingdom | 13th century | ||||||||
• Vassal of Sukhothai | c. 1279–1298 | ||||||||
• Vassal of Ayutthaya | 16th century | ||||||||
| 1767 | |||||||||
• Vassal of Thonburi | 1769 | ||||||||
• Demoted to Rattanakosin province | 1782 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Thailand | ||||||||
The Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom (Thai: อาณาจักรนครศรีธรรมราช RTGS: Anachak Nakhon Si Thammarat), Nagara Sri Dharmaraja or the Kingdom of Ligor, was one of the major constituent city states (mueang) of the Siamese kingdoms of Sukhothai and later Ayutthaya and controlled a sizeable part of the Malay Peninsula. Its capital was the eponymous city of Nakhon Si Thammarat in what is now Southern Thailand.