placeWiang Kum Kam
เวียงกุมกาม · Wiang Kum Kam
The capital before the capital, drowned by the river, found under the fields.
Mathew Schwartz · CC BY 3.0What it is
Mangrai's first city on this plain, founded 1286 on the Ping's bank south of the present city and abandoned after floods; the ruins were dug out of the fields of Saraphi from 1984. The middle ring road has an underpass named for it.
The long version
Inference — it is the argument for the moat square's location in one ruin. A city on the bank drowned; a city a kilometre from the bank is still here.
Connected to
- The Ping What drowned it.
- Mangrai Who built it.
- Ring 2, the 700 Years Road The underpass named for it is on this ring.
Named here by
- Ring 2, the 700 Years Road An underpass is named for it.
- The day the river came up Tha Phae The precedent.
- Mangrai His first try.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Wiang Kum Kam — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated |
Sources
- Wiang Kum Kam — Wikipedia (en)
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