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พระเจ้ากาวิละ · Phra Chao Kawila

Re-peopled an empty city and re-dug its moat, 1796.

What it is

First ruler of Chiang Mai under Siam. The city had stood nearly empty for two decades after the Burmese wars; he re-entered it in 1796, restored the walls and moat, and added the corner bastions in the form they have now. The gates and corners a driver turns at today are largely his.

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defaultcitedKawila — Wikipedia (en)
text_thinferencewritten in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated

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