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Name: Tambralinga Kingdom

Type: Polity

Start: 901 AD

End: 1298 AD

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Was an Indianised kingdom located on the Malay Peninsula, existing at least from the 10th century.

Establishment


  • January 901: The Tambralinga Kingdom was an Indianised kingdom located on the Malay Peninsula, existing at least from the 10th.
  • Chronology


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    1. Conquests of Anawrahta


    Expansion during the rule of Anawrahta in the Pagan Kingdom.

  • January 1071: In December 1044, a Pagan prince named Anawrahta came to power. Over the next three decades, he turned this small principality into the First Burmese Empire. By the 1070s, Pagan had emerged as the main Theravada Buddhism stronghold.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 902: The Malay prince was married to a Khmer princess who had fled an Angkorian dynastic bloodbath. The son of the couple contested for the Khmer throne and became Suryavarman I, thus bringing Lavo under Khmer domination through personal union. Suryavarman I also expanded into Isan, constructing many temples.

  • January 904: According to a legend in the Northern Chronicles, in 903, a king of Tambralinga invaded and took Lavo and installed a Malay prince to the Lavo throne.

  • January 1026: In 1025, Rajendra Chola launched naval raids on ports of Srivijaya and against the Burmese kingdom of Pegu. A Chola inscription states that he captured or plundered 14 places, which have been identified with Palembang, Tambralinga and Kedah among others.

  • February 1026: End of the Chola naval raid in Indonesia.

  • January 1051: Patani became part of the Hindu-Buddhist Empire of Srivijaya, a maritime confederation based in Palembang.

  • January 1088: The Khmer influences on Lavo began to wane as a result of the growing influence of the emerging Burmese kingdom of Pagan. In 1087 Kyansittha of Pagan invaded Lavo, but King Narai of Lavo was able to repel the Burmese invasion and Lavo, emerging relatively stronger from the encounter, was thus spared from either Khmer or Burmese hegemony. King Narai moved the capital to Ayodhaya and Lavo was then able to exert pressure on Suvarnabhumi to the west and slowly to take its cities.

  • January 1151: In the 12th century Langkasuka was a tributary to Srivijaya, and around the 15th century it was replaced by the Pattani Kingdom.

  • January 1151: Under Suryavarman II, in power from 1113 to 1150: in the east the Khmer Empire annexed several provinces of Champā, in the south the Khmer invested the Malay Peninsula.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1299: To the south, Ramkamhaeng subjugated the kingdom of Supannabhum and Sri Thamnakorn (Tambralinga).
  • Selected Sources


  • Harvey, G. E. (1925): History of Burma: From the Earliest Times to 10 March 1824. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., pp. 23-34
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