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At its zenith in 1805-1812, the Kingdom was composed of 25 polities, ranging from duchies and principalities to federations and kingdoms. With the furthest extent reaching the Shan States, southern Yunnan, Laos, Cambodia, northern Malaysia, northwestern Vietnam, and Kawthoung. The kingdom was founded by Rama I of the Chakri dynasty.
The Rattanakosin Kingdom and the four traditionally counted preceding kingdoms, collectively called Siam, had a largely uncodified constitution until 1932. In the King of Siam's preamble to the penal code promulgated on 1 April 1908, and came into effect on 21 September, the king said: "In the ancient times the monarchs of the Siamese nation governed their people with laws which were ...
The granting of Siam's 'permanent' constitution on 10 December 1932 at the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall King Prajadhipok signing the Permanent Constitution of Siam on 10 December 1932. In the immediate aftermath of the revolution, Prajadhipok and the Khana Ratsadon immediately set about granting the Siamese people their first constitution. The ...
The Rattanakosin Kingdom and the four traditionally counted preceding kingdoms, collectively called Siam, had an uncodified constitution until 1932. In the preamble to the Penal Code promulgated 1 April 1908, which came into effect on 21 September, King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) stated: "In the ancient times the monarchs of the Siamese nation governed their people with laws which were originally ...
English: This book consists of Phraratchaphongsawadan Krung Rattanakosin Ratchakan Thi Nueng ("Royal Chronicle of the Kingdom of Rattanakosin: First Reign"), a royal chronicle originally written by Chaophraya Thiphakorawong Mahakosathipbodi (personal name: Kham Bunnak; 1813–1870 CE), and vastly edited (and censored) by Damrong Rachanuphap (1862–1943 CE), prince of Siam, by virtue of a ...
The Samuhanayoks of the Rattanakosin period were then not known as "Chaophraya Chakkri", which was the generic title of Samuhanayok, but instead known from their individualized title names, most famously Chaophraya Bodindecha. By the late nineteenth century, the Chatusadom system was inadequate for the modernizing Siam.
Administrative divisions during the Rattanakosin Kingdom During this era, nothing changed much at the beginning. But when the western colonial powers started to eye the region, The Siamese government took to reform their administrative division into a form that much resembles the modern structure.
The first ruler of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya, King Uthong (r. 1351–1369), made two important contributions to Thai history: the establishment and promotion of Theravada Buddhism as the official religion to differentiate his kingdom from the neighbouring Hindu kingdom of Angkor and the compilation of the Dharmaśāstra, a legal code based on ...