Nakhon Si Thammarat

Province

Nakhon Si Thammarat ( Thai: นครศรีธรรมราช; earlier Mueang Lakhon, Ligor, also Tambralinga, alternative indisierende notation: " Nagara Sri Dharmaraja " ) is the capital of the district ( Amphoe ) Mueang Nakhon Si Thammarat and Nakhon Si Thammarat province. The Nakhon Si Thammarat Province is located in the southern region of Thailand. Of the locals it is short Nakhon Si called.

Nakhon Si Thammarat ( Thai: เทศบาล นคร นครศรีธรรมราช ) has a big-city status ( thesaban Nakhon - administrative status).

  • 5.1 universities
  • 5.2 College
  • 5.3 schools
  • 6.1 Wat Phra Mahathat Woramaha viharn
  • 6.2 Other points of interest

Location

Nakhon Si Thammarat is the gateway to the Muslim south of Thailand. The city is located about 780 km south of Bangkok in a fertile coastal plain of the Gulf of Thailand. Previously located directly on the Gulf of Thailand, the city is today as a result of intensive sedimentation more than 26 km from the coast.

History

Researchers assume that at this point in the 8th century, the center of the Srivijaya Empire was ( Ligor ). Already in the 13th century, the city was an important center of trade to Ceylon and South India. 1292 conquered King Ramkhamhaeng the area and verleibte them his kingdom Sukhothai. After his demise in 1350 Nakhon Si Thammarat fell to Ayutthaya and formed a tributary empire part. 1516 King Ramathibodi II allowed the Portuguese to build a trading post here.

At the beginning of the 20th century styled King Rama V ( Chulalongkorn ) the management of Siam fundamentally in order to connect the vulnerable by colonialist tendencies of France and England outside areas of Siam closer to the center. In the aftermath of Thesaphiban reform therefore a Monthon Nakhon Si Thammarat was built, which included the provinces of Songkhla, Phatthalung and Nakhon Si Thammarat. The city of Nakhon Si Thammarat was the capital of the Monthon.

Economy

Nakhon Si Thammarat is an important center of Thai arts and crafts, including here is the goldsmith's art in the niello technique ( rubbing impression ) have been developed to perfection. Fruit crops and mining of the nearby Khao Luang mountain range form the basis of the wealth of the city.

Traffic

Airport

The nearest airport is that of Nakhon Si Thammarat ( Thai: ท่าอากาศยาน นครศรีธรรมราช; ICAO code: VTSF; IATA Code: NST).

Train

Nakhon Si Thammarat station

Education

Nakhon Si Thammarat has several major educational institutions.

Universities

  • Walailak University
  • Rajabhat University, Nakhon Si Thammarat
  • Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, Nakhon Si Thammarat Campus
  • Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya, Nakhon Si Thammarat Campus

College

  • Nakhon Si Thammarat Technical College
  • Polytechnic College
  • Nakhon Si Thammarat Vocational Education College
  • Boromarajonani College Of Nursing ( Thai: วิทยาลัย พยาบาล บรม ราช ชนนี )
  • Nakhon Technic Architect & Business Administration College
  • Nakhon Si Thammarat Arts Handicraft College
  • Nakhon Si Thammarat Dramatic Arts College
  • Khanapol Commercial College
  • Sithammasokarat College ( Priest College)

Train

  • Ammat Pittayanusorn School
  • Triam Udom Suksa School Of The South
  • Kanlayanee Si Thammarat School
  • Benjamarachutit School
  • Srithammarat Suksa School
  • Tha Nakhon Yanwaropas Uthit School

Attractions

Wat Phra Mahathat Woramaha viharn

The Wat Phra Mahathat ( Thai วัด พระ มหาธาตุ วรมหาวิหาร ) is the most famous Buddhist temple ( Wat ) of Nakhon Si Thammarat and one of the oldest in Thailand. It was built at the creation of the city and has a tooth relic of the Buddha.

The 74 -meter-high chedi called Phra Chedi Baromathat, it is located in a small courtyard which is filled with a forest of 173 smaller stupas. She is in the 5th, and possibly only built in the 8th century, they allegedly said to have been built over an older, square chedi in Srivijaya style. In the 13th century it was extended and enlarged, and got its present appearance in Sri Lanka style. The yard is surrounded by a covered gallery with Viharn Tap Kaset names that decorated with Buddha statues and elephant heads that seem to look out from the base of the Chedi. In Viharn Phra Song Ma, there is a staircase which leads up to the walk around the chedi above the gallery. The staircase is guarded by mythological giants ( yak).

To the north is the Viharn Kien with a small temple museum. South of the chedi is of great ubosot, which was built in 1628 Ayutthaya style. The living area of the monks is on the street in a separate temple, Wat Na Phra Boromathat.

The Chedi is the symbol of Nakhon Si Thammarat and is also visible in the seal of the province.

Additional points of interest

  • The Historic City Wall is mentioned in the History of the City of 1278. It was restored by King Ramesuan and later in 1686 by King Narai with the help of the French engineer M. de la Mare in the 14th century. The wall has an east- west distance of 456 m and 2238 m in north-south direction, so it encloses an area of about 1 sq. km. In the northern part there is only one gate, the Pradtu Chai Nuea or Pradtu Chai Sak; in the southern part there was only one goal. The eastern part had three gates, the western five. Today only the northern gate with a piece of the historic wall.
  • National Museum Nakhon Si Thammarat - fine collection of works of art, including a unique Vishnu figure from the 5th century.
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