The 'Kingdom of a Million Elephants,' the dominant Lao Buddhist kingdom whose fragmentation into three rival principalities opened the way for Siamese and Vietnamese domination.
Dissolved in 1707 when a succession dispute split the unified kingdom into three rival successor states: the Kingdom of Luang Phrabang, the Kingdom of Vientiane, and the Kingdom of Champasak.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Lan Xang — the shape you scrub through changes in 1353 · 1496 · 1515 · 1565.
The current standard one-volume regional history covering Funan, the Khmer Empire, Pagan, and the Thai kingdoms in their long context.
Treats the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang and its fragmentation among the mainland's cycles of integration and collapse that exposed it to Siamese and Vietnamese pressure.