Sisowath Monivong

Preah Bat Sisowath Monivong (Khmer ព្រះបាទ ស៊ី សុ វ តិ ្ថ មុនីវង្ស; * 1875 in Phnom Penh, Kampot † 1941) was from 1927 until his death in 1941 the King of Cambodia.

Sisowath Monivong was the second son of King Sisowath I. At the time of his birth his uncle was I. King Norodom of Cambodia and reigned as a puppet of the French protectorate of Cambodia of the then capital Odong the country. After France had conquered Laos and Vietnam in 1884, Cambodia was incorporated into the colony of French Indochina. The royal family moved from Odong in the new capital Phnom Penh to where Sisowath Monivong also stayed.

Norodom died in 1904 and the father of Sisowath Monivong was the new king, who appointed his son Crown Prince. After the king died in 1927, Sisowath Monivong ascended the throne, but remained as its predecessors a figurehead of France, whose Supreme representatives held the real power in the hands.

Under Monivong was Cambodia goal from outside controlled communist influences. In 1930, the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, the Indochinese Communist Party, which then gained a certain popularity in Cambodia. The main objective of the Cambodian branch was to fight the French.

1940 France was defeated by the German Reich and Italy in a blitzkrieg and largely occupied, and then used by the Germans Vichy government took over the administration not only in France but also in the colonies, including Cambodia. Japan took advantage of the precarious situation of France and began in Vietnam, with the occupation of Indochina. Cambodia was occupied in the spring of 1941. The French colonial administration was allowed to continue working under Japanese supervision. In western Cambodia, Thailand occupied large parts of the country, which had previously been pressed him decades of France in a violent action. Sisowath Monivong retired then in the fall of 1941 to Kampot back and died there the same year.

According to the throne would Monivongs son, Sisowath Monireth been heir to the throne, but the French continued Norodom Sihanouk, a grandson of the late King as the new king of Cambodia one of which they probably expected a fügsameres behavior.

  • King (Cambodia)
  • Cambodian
  • Born 1875
  • Died in 1941
  • Man
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