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2013-01-14 street-life Phnom-Penh Cambodja 310

Early history

How Phnom Penh also originated, it was first the capital of Cambodia after Ponhea Yat King of the Khmer Empire fled from Angkor Thom after passing through the kingdom of Ayutthaya was conquered in 1431.

Royal capital, the pearl of Asia

It took until 1866, under the reign of King Norodom I, that the government permanently in Phnom Penh would settle. It was only then the Royal Palace built with later addition to the Silver Pagoda. Thus began the growth of Phnom Penh to large city. The French put many channels for the drainage of swamps around the city and built roads and a port.

By the 20s of the 20th century, Phnom Penh known as the Pearl of Asia. Through the construction of a railway and airport Pochentong remained the city grow.

War and Terror

During the Vietnam War there were many battles in Cambodia. The United States bombed the countryside. This attracted many refugees to the city.

In 1975 the population had risen to more than 2,000,000. On April 17, the Cambodian New Year, the city fell, and it was occupied by fighters of the Khmer Rouge. The city was then forcibly evacuated completely. The residents were taken to farms in the countryside to seek out new people to be. The Tuol Svay Prey college was changed in prison Tuol Sleng (S-21). This prison is now the Tuol Sleng Museum and Choeung Ek, like, 15 kilometers outside the city, a memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

Reconstruction

The Khmer Rouge by the Vietnamese in Phnom Penh expelled in early 1979. The people began below to return to their homes. A period of reconstruction began that first but slowly went by the political instability in the country. By 1998, Phnom Penh had a population of 862,000 inhabitants.

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Uploaded on February 5, 2013
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