Mueang Sing historical park
Historical Park Mueang Sing ( Thai: อุทยาน ประวัติศาสตร์ เมือง สิงห์, pronounced: [ ʡùta -ya ː n prà Wat sà ː t mʉaŋ Sin ] - Historical Park City of Lions ) is a historical park (English Historical Park ) in the province of Kanchanaburi in central Thailand.
Location
The historic settlement is located in Amphoe Sai Yok Sing, Sing municipality, about 49 km from Kanchanaburi or 175 kilometers from Bangkok.
The city is picturesquely situated between the mountains of limestone on the banks of the River Kwai, where the riverside meet close and the flow rate of the Kwai River increased.
Plant
The metropolitan area is surrounded by a still impressive, about five feet high city wall and covers an area of 800 meters by 1,500 meters. The largest part of the city wall is perpendicular and straight, the way south-facing part follows the loop of the River Kwai. Ditches and earth walls are used to monitor the water system and were formerly part of the attachment.
Today there is on the premises nor the Prasat Mueang Sing, architecturally reminiscent of the plants in Lopburi and is in the city center. There are also other building complexes, which are also composed mainly of laterite blocks and are held in the style of Khmer. Since in this case, however, the usual architectural intricacies of Khmer buildings missing, it can also be a plant of the local population, which imitated the style of the then occupying power.
History
Mueang Sing is an ancient settlement of the Khmer whose empire stretched from the 9th to the 14th century with today's Thailand. The city lay on its western border.
The architectural style suggests that the current system from the late period of the local Khmer Empire comes, probably the reign of King Jayavarman VII (1181-1220), in whose honor a stone stele was erected, which mentions 23 cities of the empire, including Srichaya Singhapura. It is believed that thrived here, the western outpost of the Khmer empire at the time of its greatest expansion.
In the official lists cities of Ayutthaya, the name, however, is not. It was not until the reign of King Phra Phutthayotfa Chulaloke ( Rama I ) went back into the area. It was built in a border settlement on the Siamese - Burmese border. King Mongkut (Rama IV ) gave the local rulers of the city the title of Phra Sing Saming Burin ( Thai: พระ สมิง สิงห์ บุรินทร์ ). King Chulalongkorn ( Rama V ) was Mueang Sing set up within its national territory reform as Tambon ( commune ).
1985 was found in repair and cleaning work prehistoric graves in which besides human skeletons also completely preserved pots and bronze objects were found.