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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 156 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAKHON SRI TAMMARAT (also known as LAKHON and formerly as LIGORE)  , a

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town of
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southern Siam, in the division of the same name, about 38o m . S. of
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Bangkok, on the east coast of the
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Malay Peninsula . It is one of the most ancient cities of Siam, and contains many buildings and ruins of antiquarian
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interest . The trade consists chiefly of the export of rice . In the
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bay, a short distance off,
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ships can lie safely at all seasons . The population (7000) is chiefly Siamese, but there is an ad-mixture of Burmese, the descendants of prisoners of war and of refugees from
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Tenasserim . The town is the headquarters of a governor under the high
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commissioner at Singora . It has for long been a centre of the
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American Presbyterian
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Mission to Siam . It was once the capital of a feudatory state, the chief of which ruled the greater
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part of the Malay Peninsula in the name of the kings of Siam and
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bore the brunt of all the
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wars with Malacca and other Malay states . It lies, however, north of the limit of Malay expansion, and has never at any time come under Malay
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rule . With the fall of the Siamese capital of
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Ayuthia in 1767 it became
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independent, but returned to its allegiance on the founding of Bangkok . In the 17th century
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British, Portuguese and Dutch merchants had factories here and carried on an extensive trade .

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