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1 Geography

The province is cut into two halves by the Phetchabun mountain range, with the highest elevation in the province at 1222 m. The east of the province belongs to the Khorat Plateau.

Three national parks are located in the province. The Tat Tohn National Park is in north-west of the province, featuring some scenic waterfalls and dry dipterocarp forests. The biggest attraction of the Sai Thong National Park in the west of the province is the Sai Thong waterfall, but also some fields of the Siam Tulip. Similar fields can be found in the Pa Hin Ngam National Park in the south-west, scheduled to be gazetted in the future. However this park has its name from the strangely shaped rock formations found there.

2 History

The history of the city of Chaiyaphum dates back to the Khmer EmpireThe Khmer Empire was a powerful kingdom based in what is now Cambodia. The empire, which succeeded from the kingdom of Chenla, at times ruled over and/or vassalised parts of modern-day Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. Its greatest legacy is Angkor, which was t in the 12th century11th century 12th century 13th century other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. Events Song dynasty loses power over Northern China The Kamakura Shogunate deprives the, when it was a small city on the route from AngkorAngkor is the ancient capital of the Khmer empire which thrived from the 9th century to 15th century CE. Its ruins are located in forests to the north of the Great Lake ( Tonle Sap), near present day Siem Reap, Cambodia, and are a UNESCO World Heritage Si to Prasat Singh ( Kanchanaburi provinceKanchanaburi ( Thai ) is the largest of the central provinces changwat of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from north clockwise) Tak, Uthai Thani, Suphanburi, Nakhon Pathom and Ratchaburi. In the west it borders Myanmar. Geography The province is loca). The Prang Ku still remains from this time. In 1817Events March 4 James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President of the United States of America April Earthquake in Palermo, Italy April 3 Princess Caraboo appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England July 4 At Rome, New York, construction on th the area was settled again by a group of LaoThis article is about the Lao ethnic group. Lao can also refer to the Lao language. It is the adjectival form of Laos, and is also sometimes used as an alternative word for Laos . The Lao are an ethnic group of Southeast Asia. The vast majority of Lao peotians, after it was deserted for many centuries. At first they settled in Baan Nam Khun Nong E Chan (Nakhon Ratchasima province), but soon moved to the current site of Chaiyaphum, then called Baan Luang. When the Lao King AnouvongAnouvong was the last king of Vientiane, ruling 1805- 1828. In 1827 he declared war on Siam in an attempt to regain independence, but after successfully attacking Nakhon Ratchasima his army was defeated, and in return the Siamese troops attacked and total declared war on Siam, the local ruler Jao Phraya Lae changed allegiance and supported the Siamese troops. In 1826Events February 11 University College London is founded, under the name University of London''. April 1 Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine. June 14- 15 The Auspicious Incident: Mahmud II, sultan of Ottoman Empire, crushes the last mutiny he was killed by Laotian troops, before these were defeated and all of Laos became part of Siam. Jao Phraya Lae was renamed by the Thais to Phraya Phakdi Chumpon, and is still the local hero.