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Roads of Chiang Maiᨩ᩠ᨿᨦᩉ᩠ᨾᩲ᩵ EN ไทย

era1300s–1700s — Lanna and Burma

พุทธศตวรรษ 19–23 — ล้านนากับพม่า

Four hundred years in which the roads were the rivers.

Chiang Mai City old map during the Lan Na kingdom (in Thailand). The portrait of a ruler (king) is on the left side. There is a castle, palace, temples, local houses, the treasury, the city wall with Unknown author · Public domain

What it is

The kingdom's roads were tracks and its highways were the Ping and the Kok. Two centuries of Burmese rule from 1558 left the walls standing and the city, by the 1770s, nearly empty. The fifth gate, Suan Prung, was cut in the south wall under Sam Fang Kaen in this period.

The long version

Inference — no road in the present catalogue is dated to these four centuries, which is a statement about the record rather than the roads. The trade tracks to Burma through Hang Dong, later Route 108, and north through Chiang Dao, later 107, are older than any document that names them.

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Named here by

Where each claim comes from
FieldTierSourceNote
defaultcitedLanna — Wikipedia (en)
text_thinferencewritten in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated
text.storyinference

Sources

cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there

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