The Khmer successor-state to Funan that fragmented into 'Land Chenla' and 'Water Chenla' before being unified under the Khmer Empire.
Dissolved when Jayavarman II proclaimed the Khmer Empire in 802 CE, having already split into the rival polities of Land Chenla and Water Chenla in the early 8th century, with Water Chenla absorbed into Javanese suzerainty around 790 CE.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Chenla — the shape you scrub through changes in 550 · 650 · 750.
Primary scholarly reference tracing Chenla's emergence from Funan and its internal divisions.
Lieberman's sweeping synthesis of mainland Southeast Asian state formation frames the Khmer trajectory from Funan and Chenla toward the unified Angkorian empire.