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Bangkok - Thailand
The capital of the kingdom Thailand and administration in moderation at the same time the capital of the province of the same name is Bangkok since 1782.
10,787,211 people live in the Bangkok Metropolitan region, the greatest agglomeration in Thailand. The town is the political, economic and cultural center of Thailand with universities, universities, palaces and over 400 Wats as well as the most important traffic junction of the country. The national museum in Bangkok is the largest of its manner in Southeast Asia.
Story of Bangkok
The origin of Bangkok is located in the small town Thonburi, today part of Bangkok, on the western shore of the Chao Praya. General Taksin made Thonburi in the year 1772 after Ayutthaya 1767 had been destroyed largely in the war with Burma to the new capital. The new king transferred Rama I., founder of the Chakri dynasty ruling to this day, the seat of government on the eastern shore ten years later and started to extend the field named Rattanakosin, village of Baan Makok lived in with this at that time primarily of Chinese, after the example of the former royal seat to the capital.
The official name of the town has been in the shortened form "Krung Thep" -- that is "town of the angels" since that time. This is, however, only a shortened form of the complete name, the worldwide longest city name. Western dealers and travelers used the name of the village from which turned in the course of the time "Bangkok", the name known today internationally, instead.
Rattanakosin became plumb line through a channel, the Klong, to an artificial island in a bend of the Chao Praya in the center of the new royal palace and this one, royal temple wade through this one was set up to Phra Kaeo with the emerald Buddha, the national shrine of Thailand.
The whole town was run through by a thick net of channels at that time. The traffic happened for the most part on this Klongs. Alone the markets took place on the water. There hardly were streets. Bangkok was described as the Venice of the east at that time sometimes, too. Most Klongs were filled up after each other as of the middle of the 19th century to make room for the steadily increasing traffic and the growing town.
1864 became finished the first surfaced street of the city of Thanon Charoen Krung instead of an earlier channel. During the reign King Rama V. Chulalongkorn arose a railroad track connected the Krung Thep with the north of the country, streetcar lines for the inner municipal traffic, a large number of new streets and the majority of the government buildings often influenced by European styles.
At the beginning of the 20th century the town grew beyond its earlier limits to the north and the east. Uniting further, growth push particularly for the to the west of the river situated districts indicated the inauguration of the first bridge, this one, Memorial bridge, about the Chao Praya, in the year 1932. during the second World War Bangkok was occupied by Japanese forces for some years and was bombarded as of 1944 of the Allies. After the end of the war the town, however, recovered quickly and grew constantly further.
Most Klongs had been already filled up and replaced by boulevards and streets until middle of the 20th century. As of the 1960s and 1970s years so many became houses built and urban expressways improved like never before. With the economy boom of the 1980s years this one for the erection used further new development, great one number of skyscrapers led and the urban features changed lastingly. The number of the residents finally increased at the same time rapidly and made Bangkok to one of the greatest metropolises of the world.
At the beginning of the 21st century over six millions people live in Bangkok in the metro pole region even more than ten million. The town economically recovers visibly from the collapse at the end of the boom of the 1980s years which finds its expression not least also in new building schemes. The traffic represents one of the greatest municipal problems. The development of the public traffic network with Bangkok metro and Bangkok Skytrain also could ease the situation only at least till now.
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