Suryavarman II.

Suryavarman II ( * ca 1095, probably in 1150 † ) was a king of the ancient Khmer Empire. He ruled from 1113 to 1150 and was both commander and a patron of the arts. He succeeded to a Kambuja and to push the boundaries.

Suryavarman II, who was officially crowned in 1119, led successful campaigns of conquest against areas in today's Thailand to Myanmar and so expanded the borders of the Khmer Empire. Thus he gained contact with China and gained an alliance with the east gelegenem Champa. Together with the allies attacked Suryavarman II Dai Viet. However, the fights against Dai Viet not helped to new conquests, so the king of Champa solved the alliance between him and Suryavarman II on. Thereupon Suryavarman turned against the Cham, whose kingdom he could occupy 1144. The end of his reign is unclear, it may be dropped in one of his campaigns.

General Suryavarman II, the building of Angkor Wat, the largest and most important temples of Angkor attributed. Unlike his predecessors, his farm devoted primarily of religious worship of Vishnu and Shiva not. Historians see in him one of the greatest rulers of the Khmer empire.