The first major Tai Buddhist kingdom in mainland Southeast Asia, credited with developing the Thai script and establishing Theravada Buddhism as the state religion.
Annexed as a province of the Ayutthaya Kingdom in 1438 CE after the death of King Borommapan (Maha Thammaracha IV), completing a process of Ayutthayan suzerainty that had begun with Sukhothai's acknowledgement of Ayutthaya's supremacy in 1378.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Sukhothai Kingdom — the shape you scrub through changes in 1238 · 1340.
The current standard one-volume regional history covering Funan, the Khmer Empire, Pagan, and the Thai kingdoms in their long context.
Places the first major Tai Buddhist kingdom of Sukhothai within the broader emergence of Theravada Tai polities that Lieberman maps across the mainland.