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| === Nakhon Si Thammarat === | === Nakhon Si Thammarat === | ||
| {{main|Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom}} | {{main|Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom}} | ||
| There are two ''Tamnan'' or histories, ''Tamnan Mueang Nakhon Si Thammarat''<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Fukami |first=Sumio |date=2004 |title=The Long 13th Century of Tambralinga: from Javaka to Siam |url=https://toyo-bunko.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/3193/files/memoirs62_03.pdf |journal=Memoirs of Toyo Bunko}}</ref> (History of ]) and ''Tamnan Phrathat Mueang Nakhon Si Thammarat''<ref name=":2" /> (History of ]), which provide semi-legendary narration of history of the area of ] from thirteenth to seventeenth centuries, believed to be composed around the later half of the seventeenth century,<ref name=":2" /> discovered by modern Thai historian ] and published during the 1930s. According to these ] Buddhist ''Tamnan''s, King Si Thammasok established the city of Nakhon Si Thammarat as the center of his new ] around mid-thirteenth century. With the foundation, King Si Thammasok also organized twelve ''Naksat'' zodiac<ref name=":2" /> satellite |
There are two ''Tamnan'' or histories, ''Tamnan Mueang Nakhon Si Thammarat''<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Fukami |first=Sumio |date=2004 |title=The Long 13th Century of Tambralinga: from Javaka to Siam |url=https://toyo-bunko.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/3193/files/memoirs62_03.pdf |journal=Memoirs of Toyo Bunko}}</ref> (History of ]) and ''Tamnan Phrathat Mueang Nakhon Si Thammarat''<ref name=":2" /> (History of ]), which provide semi-legendary narration of history of the area of ] from thirteenth to seventeenth centuries, believed to be composed around the later half of the seventeenth century,<ref name=":2" /> discovered by modern Thai historian ] and published during the 1930s. According to these ] Buddhist ''Tamnan''s, King Si Thammasok established the city of Nakhon Si Thammarat as the center of his new ] around mid-thirteenth century. With the foundation, King Si Thammasok also organized twelve ''Naksat'' zodiac<ref name=":2" /> satellite cities to be under the rule of Nakhon Si Thammarat. The term ''Naksat'', from Sanskrit '']'', referred instead to the ]. | ||
| ] depicting '']'' surrounded by the twelve ''Naksat'' zodiacs.]] | ] depicting '']'' surrounded by the twelve ''Naksat'' zodiacs.]] | ||
| Twelve ''Naksat'' satellite cities subordinating to Nakhon Si Thammarat, each assigned with a zodiac emblem, are ] (]), ] (]), ] (]), ] (]), ] (]), ] (]), ] (]), ] (]), Banthay Smoe (], theorized to be ]),<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Chand Chirayu Rajani |date=1976 |title=Background to the Sri Vijaya Story Part V |url=https://thesiamsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/1976/03/JSS_064_2l_ChandChirayuRajani_ReviewArticleBackgroundToSriVijayaV.pdf |journal=Journal of Siam Society}}</ref> Sa U-Lau (]), ] (]) and ] (]). These cities covered modern area from Southern Thailand to northern Malaysian states. In one version, Takua Pa was replaced with "Takua-Thalang"<ref name=":3" /> ({{lang|th|ตะกั่วถลาง}}), which could either mean Takua Pa or Thalang, suggesting that the Phuket area was under control of Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom, as did much of Southern Thailand. However, this seventeenth-century account lacks supporting collaborative evidences from other sources. | Twelve ''Naksat'' satellite cities subordinating to Nakhon Si Thammarat, each assigned with a zodiac emblem, are ] (]), ] (]), ] (]), ] (]), ] (]), ] (]), ] (]), ] (]), Banthay Smoe (], theorized to be ]),<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Chand Chirayu Rajani |date=1976 |title=Background to the Sri Vijaya Story Part V |url=https://thesiamsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/1976/03/JSS_064_2l_ChandChirayuRajani_ReviewArticleBackgroundToSriVijayaV.pdf |journal=Journal of Siam Society}}</ref> Sa U-Lau (]), ] (]) and ] (]). These cities covered modern area from Southern Thailand to northern Malaysian states. In one version, Takua Pa was replaced with "Takua-Thalang"<ref name=":3" /> ({{lang|th|ตะกั่วถลาง}}), which could either mean Takua Pa or Thalang, suggesting that the Phuket area was under control of Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom, as did much of Southern Thailand. However, this seventeenth-century account lacks supporting collaborative evidences from other sources. | ||
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| === Sukhothai and Early Ayutthaya === | === Sukhothai and Early Ayutthaya === | ||
| In the ], dated to 1292, Nakhon Si Thammarat is named as one of subordinate cities of ].<ref name=":2" /> The ''Tamnan'' suggests that a King of Sukhothai had come to subjugate Nakhon Si Thammarat.<ref name=":2" /> Therefore, the Thai Sukhothai kingdom has at least some influences over Southern Thai region in the fourteenth century but it is dubious that Sukhothai had solidified control over Southern Thailand or Malay peninsula as a whole. | In the ], dated to 1292, Nakhon Si Thammarat is named as one of subordinate cities of ].<ref name=":2" /> The ''Tamnan'' suggests that a King of Sukhothai had come to subjugate Nakhon Si Thammarat.<ref name=":2" /> Therefore, the Thai Sukhothai kingdom has at least some influences over Southern Thai region in the fourteenth century but it is dubious that Sukhothai had solidified control over Southern Thailand or Malay peninsula as a whole. | ||
| Nakhon Si Thammarat and Southern Thailand was incorporated into ] by fifteenth century. Towns on the Andaman Coast were not mentioned in the list of peripheral cities in ''Phra Aiyakarn Tamnaeng Na Thaharn Huamueang'', which was complied in under ], which included ], ], ] and ] as Ayutthayan authority was concentrated on ] side of Malay peninsula. According to ]'s ''Chronicles of the Ayuthian Dynasty'' (1640), ] went on his leisure journey to "Tjongh Tjelungh" where he died, presumably in 1491. ] passed by the port of "Juncalan" in 1539,<ref name=":1" /> visiting Nakhon Si Thammarat or Ligor, mentioning that fourteen petty kings were subordinates of the viceroy of Ligor, Mendes Pinto again mentioned "Coast of Juncalan" in 1545.<ref name=":1" /> In 1580, ] passed by "Junsalaon" on his sea journey from ] to ].<ref name=":1" /> | |||
| Earliest recognized inhabitants of Phuket seemed to be the Malays.<ref name=":0" /> ] sea nomads, called Saletters in Dutch sources,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Maziar Mozaffari Falarti |title=Malay Kingship in Kedah: Religion, Trade, and Society |publisher=Lexington Books |year=2013 |isbn=9780739168424}}</ref> also patrolled the area. In October 1592, Edmund Baker from the fleet of ] visited the "kingdome of Junsaloam",<ref name=":1" /> where Baker sent a Portuguese man to speak to the inhabitants in ]; "''Here we sent our souldier, which the captaine of the aforesaid galion had left behind him with us, because he had the Malaian language to deale with the people for pitch,''".<ref name=":1" /> This was the first recorded encounter between visitor and native inhabitant of Phuket.<ref name=":1" /> | |||
| == References == | == References == | ||
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Phuket is the largest island in modern Thailand, locating in Southern Thailand on the western coast in the Andaman Sea. Historically at the fringe of Thai sphere of influence, Phuket has a unique place in Thai history, as its natural maritime wilderness hid lucrative tin resources that attracted both locals and foreigners who competed for control over the island, also a battleground for intensive Burmese–Siamese Wars, later becoming a Hokkien Chinese labor immigration entrepôt in tin mining industry and eventually a world tourism hub.
Historiography
Locating on the southern frontier of Thai sphere of influence, far from Thai historical centers such as Ayutthaya and Bangkok, closer to the Malay archipelago, events in Phuket were rarely recorded by the mainstream official royal Siamese chronicles. Native records about Phuket are scarce and none of them described events prior to the eighteenth century. Most of early history of Phuket can only be constructed from Western records by various foreigners such as the Dutch, the British and the French, who occasionally visited or had businesses in the Phuket island in the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries. Dearth of Phuket indigenous records may be attributed to the Burmese destruction of all settlements on Phuket in 1810, which presumably destroyed any historical documents and clues of the island.
The oldest extant native Thai historiography about the history of Phuket is dated to 1841, a small excerpt recounting a list of governors of Thalang or Phuket from around mid-eighteenth century to that time. Phraya Thalang Roek the governor of Thalang, relying on oral accounts of some elderly people of Phuket, provided a slightly more detailed account of History of Phuket, published by Prince Damrong in 1914 as Phongsawadan Mueang Thalang ("Chronicles of Thalang").
Gerolamo Emilio Gerini, an Italian man known by Siamese title Phra Sarasat Phonlakhan (พระสารสาสน์พลขันธ์), served as a military instructor at Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy from 1897 to 1905. Gerini studied Siamese history and culture, composing Historical Retrospect of Junkceylon Island in 1905, the first modern historical narration of Phuket, republished in 1986 under Siam Society.
Names of Phuket
For most of its history, Phuket was known as "Junkceylon" in Western sources. The term Junkceylon came from Portuguese attested terms Jonsalam, Jonsalan or Junsalão of the sixteenth century. These terms were derived from the Malay term "Ujong Salang", meaning the "Cape of Salang", referring to the southern tip of the island. The name "Salang" was apparently related to native calling of the island "Chalang" or Thalang", which was adopted by the Thais to call the island. The name Salang, Chalang or Thalang did not have translatable meanings in both Thai and Malay languages, in which Gerini theorized to be derived from indigenous Austroasiatic language spoken by Semang Negrito people of the Malay peninsula. Merong Mahawangsa the Chronicles of Kedah, dated to late eighteenth century to early nineteenth century, called Phuket "Pulau Salang" or "Island of Salang".
The name "Phuket" came from the Malay term Bukit ("Mountain"), substantiated into Thai term "Phukej" (ภูเก็จ) from Phu ("Mountain") and Kej ("Diamond"), meaning "Diamond Mountain", which was related to Siamese title of the governors of Thalang "Phraya Phetkhiri" (พระยาเพชรคีรีฯ, "Lord of the Diamond Mountain"). Thalang and Phukej are two distinct settlements on the island. Thalang was the preferred term by pre-modern Siamese government as it was the main administrative center, locating in various shifting places in the center-northern part of the island, while Phukej began as a small settlement on the southern half of the island around late eighteenth century under jurisdiction of Thalang. With the foundation of modern Phukej town in 1827, the Phukej city grew rapidly and exponentially as a tin mining hub, attracting Hokkien Chinese tin mine laborers. After mid-nineteenth century, Phukej became the preferred term to call the island. Official spelling changed from Phukej to Phuket in early twentieth century.
Early history
Nakhon Si Thammarat
Main article: Nakhon Si Thammarat KingdomThere are two Tamnan or histories, Tamnan Mueang Nakhon Si Thammarat (History of Nakhon Si Thammarat) and Tamnan Phrathat Mueang Nakhon Si Thammarat (History of Phrathat of Nakhon Si Thammarat), which provide semi-legendary narration of history of the area of Southern Thailand from thirteenth to seventeenth centuries, believed to be composed around the later half of the seventeenth century, discovered by modern Thai historian Prince Damrong and published during the 1930s. According to these Theravadin Buddhist Tamnans, King Si Thammasok established the city of Nakhon Si Thammarat as the center of his new Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom around mid-thirteenth century. With the foundation, King Si Thammasok also organized twelve Naksat zodiac satellite cities to be under the rule of Nakhon Si Thammarat. The term Naksat, from Sanskrit Nakshatra, referred instead to the Chinese zodiac.
Twelve Naksat satellite cities subordinating to Nakhon Si Thammarat, each assigned with a zodiac emblem, are Saiburi (Rat), Pattani (Ox), Kelantan (Tiger), Pahang (Rabbit), Kedah (Dragon), Phatthalung (Snake), Trang (Horse), Chumphon (Goat), Banthay Smoe (Monkey, theorized to be Krabi), Sa U-Lau (Rooster), Takua Pa (Dog) and Kraburi (Pig). These cities covered modern area from Southern Thailand to northern Malaysian states. In one version, Takua Pa was replaced with "Takua-Thalang" (ตะกั่วถลาง), which could either mean Takua Pa or Thalang, suggesting that the Phuket area was under control of Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom, as did much of Southern Thailand. However, this seventeenth-century account lacks supporting collaborative evidences from other sources.
Sukhothai and Early Ayutthaya
In the Ramkhamhaeng Stele, dated to 1292, Nakhon Si Thammarat is named as one of subordinate cities of Sukhothai Kingdom. The Tamnan suggests that a King of Sukhothai had come to subjugate Nakhon Si Thammarat. Therefore, the Thai Sukhothai kingdom has at least some influences over Southern Thai region in the fourteenth century but it is dubious that Sukhothai had solidified control over Southern Thailand or Malay peninsula as a whole.
Nakhon Si Thammarat and Southern Thailand was incorporated into Ayutthaya kingdom by fifteenth century. Towns on the Andaman Coast were not mentioned in the list of peripheral cities in Phra Aiyakarn Tamnaeng Na Thaharn Huamueang, which was complied in under King Trailokkanat, which included Nakhon Si Thammarat, Chumphon, Chaiya and Phatthalung as Ayutthayan authority was concentrated on Gulf of Siam side of Malay peninsula. According to Jeremias van Vliet's Chronicles of the Ayuthian Dynasty (1640), King Borommaracha III of Ayutthaya went on his leisure journey to "Tjongh Tjelungh" where he died, presumably in 1491. Fernão Mendes Pinto passed by the port of "Juncalan" in 1539, visiting Nakhon Si Thammarat or Ligor, mentioning that fourteen petty kings were subordinates of the viceroy of Ligor, Mendes Pinto again mentioned "Coast of Juncalan" in 1545. In 1580, Ralph Fitch passed by "Junsalaon" on his sea journey from Pegu to Malacca.
Earliest recognized inhabitants of Phuket seemed to be the Malays. Orang Laut sea nomads, called Saletters in Dutch sources, also patrolled the area. In October 1592, Edmund Baker from the fleet of Sir James Lancaster visited the "kingdome of Junsaloam", where Baker sent a Portuguese man to speak to the inhabitants in Malay language; "Here we sent our souldier, which the captaine of the aforesaid galion had left behind him with us, because he had the Malaian language to deale with the people for pitch,". This was the first recorded encounter between visitor and native inhabitant of Phuket.
References
- ^ Abu Talib Ahmad; Liok Ee Tan (2003). New Terrains in Southeast Asian History. Ohio University Press. ISBN 9780896802285.
- ^ Gerini, G.E. (1986). "Historical Retrospect of Junkceylon Island" (PDF). Journal of Siam Society.
- ^ Fukami, Sumio (2004). "The Long 13th Century of Tambralinga: from Javaka to Siam" (PDF). Memoirs of Toyo Bunko.
- ^ Chand Chirayu Rajani (1976). "Background to the Sri Vijaya Story Part V" (PDF). Journal of Siam Society.
- Maziar Mozaffari Falarti (2013). Malay Kingship in Kedah: Religion, Trade, and Society. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739168424.
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