Nong Bua Lamphu

Province

Nong Bua Lamphu ( in Thai: หนองบัวลำภู, also: Nakhon Khuen Khan Kab Kaew Bua Ban - "City with plenty of water and blooming lotus flowers ," or Mueang Kamut Sai Buriram ) since 1 December 1993, the capital of the district ( Amphoe ) Mueang Nong Bua Lamphu and the province of Nong Bua Lamphu in the northeast region of Thailand, the Isaan.

Geography

Nong Bua Lam Phu is located in the northeastern plateau on the western edge of Isaan. The distance to the capital Bangkok is a little more than 600 kilometers.

Economy

Economically important is the cultivation of rice.

History

The town was first mentioned about 900 years ago and was initially the kings of Laos tribute. 1574 conquered the Thai under King Maha Thammaracha and his son, King Naresuan, the kingdom of Lan Chang ( Laos) and chose the area around Nong Bua Lamphu as a staging area for the decisive advances. Two brothers ( Phra Woa and Phra Tha ) gathered their troops and followers and fled from Laos to Nong Bua Lamphu: After the fall of Ayutthaya in 1767, the city was drawn into conflicts within the Lao leadership. They built a city wall to protect themselves from persecution by the Lao people. But the invading army could not prevent the partial destruction and depopulation of the city so, however, the wall remained standing. After various new settlement attempts and renaming the remainder of the groups took place under King Chulalongkorn ( Rama V ), finally in 1906 the final shaping of the new city with the new name Nong Bua Lamphu, first as a district ( Mueang ) of the province of Udon Thani. 1993 was confirmed as part of the policy of decentralization Nong Bua Lamphu as capital of the newly formed province.

Attractions

• Statue of King Naresuan the Great, built in commemoration of the conquest of the kingdom of Lan Xang
• City wall from the 18th century