Kamboja

One of the sixteen mahājanapadas or north Indian states that existed at the time of the Buddha. According to Aśoka's Rock Edict No. XIII, Kamboja was among the countries visited by Aśoka's missionaries and later identified with an area on the banks of the Kabul river. However, in later literature Kamboja is the name given to the western region of Thailand.

This disambiguation page is currently linked from a large number of articles. Please help direct these ambiguous links to articles dealing with the specific meaning intended.

Look up Kamboja in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Kamboja (Sanskrit: कम्बोज) may refer to:

• Kambojas, an ancient tribe of the of the Hindukush in Iron Age India
• Kamboja Kingdom, one of the Mahajanapadas of Iron Age India
• Kamboja-Pala Dynasty of Bengal
• Kamboj, a clan of South Asia
• Kambojas and Cambodia, Kambuja kings of Cambodia
• Cambyses II of Persia, (Old Persian: Kambūjia) son of Cyrus the Great

See also

• Etymology of Kamboja
• Cambodia

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)