King Mengrai: The king of Lanna |THAILAND 🇹🇭
โพสท์โดย อ้ายเติ่ง✦ King Meng Rai founded the city of Chiang Rai in 1262. He was the 25th monarch of the Lawa Dynasty and the first king of the Meng Rai Dynasty.
✦ Mangrai succeeded his father as ruler of the Nakhon Hiran Ngoen Yang (หิรัญนครเงินยางเชียงลาว), principality of Chiang Saen in 1259 and moved his state to Chiang Rai in 1262. He worked for more than a decade to prepare the conquest of the Chiang Mai region where Mon rulers had centered their kingdom of Haripunjaya since the 9th century.
✦ He captured Haripunjaya (now Lamphun) in 1281. In 1287 he made an alliance with Ramkhamhaeng of Sukhothai and the ruler of Phayao, hoping to take advantage of the Mongol capture of Pagan, the Burmese capital; and he may have assisted in the Shan conquest of Pagan in 1290.
In 1296 he founded Chiang Mai, which became the capital of the kingdom of Lan Na (The Country of a Million Rice Fields), which remained a major power in the region until the 16th century.
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