Sukhothai

• Location: Thailand

'Dawn of Happiness'. It was the first capital of the first independent Thai Kingdom (of Sukhothai) which was founded in 1238. It became a vassal state of Lan Na in 1321 and thereafter went into decline. It was incorporated into the Kingdom of Ayutthaya in 1438. At one time it stretched north into modern Laos, west to the Andaman Sea, and south into modern Malaysia.

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