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Encyclopedia Britannica



KORAT

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 907 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KORAT , the
capital
  of the provincial division (Menton) of Nakawn Racha Sema, or " the frontier country," in Siam; in 102 5' E., 14 59' N. Pop. about 7000, mixed Cambodian and Siamese. It is the headquarters of a high
commissioner
  and of an army division. It is the terminus of a railway from Bangkok, 170 M. distant, and the distributing centre for the whole of the
plateau
 
district
  which forms the eastern part of Siam. There are copper mines of reputed wealth in the neighbourhood. It is the centre of a silk-growing
district
  and is the headquarters of the government sericultural department, instituted in 1904 with the assistance of Japanese experts for the purpose of improving the quality of Siamese silk. The government is that of an
ordinary
  provincial division of Siam. A French vice-
consul
  resides here. Since the
founding
  of Ayuthia in the 14th century,
Manuscripts.
Korat has been tributary to, or part of, Siam, with occasional lapses into independence or temporary subjection to
Cambodia
 . Before that period it was probably part of
Cambodia
 , as appears from the nature of the ruins still to be seen in its neighbour-hood. In 1896 the last vestige of its tributary
condition
  vanished with the introduction of the present system of Siamese rural administration.


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