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Preah Vihear Temple
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Preah Vihear Temple appears in Vinony's UNESCO World Heritage collection — one of 3,384 entries.
Vinony's link graph records 207 inbound references to Preah Vihear Temple, and connects out to Cambodian–Thai border dispute, Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom.
The entry is geolocated on the map in landmark.
It is catalogued under topics including 12th-century Buddhist temples, Angkorian sites in Preah Vihear province and Archaeological sites in Cambodia.
Key facts
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
- Festivals
- Shrine
- Location
- Choam Khsant District , Preah Vihear province
- Country
- Cambodia
- Creator
- Suryavarman I and Suryavarman II
- Completed
- 11th–12th centuries AD
- Inscriptions
- K.383 K.380 K.381 K.382
- Elevation
- 525 m (1,722 ft)
- Official name
- Temple of Preah Vihear
- Criteria
- Cultural: (i)
- Inscription
- 2008 (32nd Session )
- Area
- 154.7 ha (382 acres)
- Buffer zone
- 2,642.5 ha (6,530 acres)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- disputed territory
- Country
- Cambodia
- Located in
- Preah Vihear Province
- Area
- 2642.5
- Founded by
- Yasovarman I
- Location
- Preah Vihear Province
- Image
- 03 Prasat Preah Vihear-nX-06478.jpg
- Significant event
- Preah Vihear dispute
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- native label
- ប្រាសាទព្រះវិហារ
- Commons category
- Temple of Preah Vihear
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
- territory claimed by
- Thailand
- inception
- 0893-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Preah Vihear (lit. "vihāra of the gods") (Khmer: ប្រាសាទព្រះវិហារ Prasat Preah Vihear) is an ancient edifice built by the Khmer Empire as a Hindu temple on top of a 525-metre (1,722 ft) cliff in the Dângrêk Mountains, in Cambodia. Over time, it became a Buddhist temple.
As a key edifice of the empire's spiritual life, Preah Vihear was supported and modified by successive kings and thus bears elements of several architectural styles. It is unusual among Khmer temples in being constructed along a long north–south axis, rather than having the conventional rectangular plan with orientation toward the east. The temple gives its name to the surrounding Preah Vihear province.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Preah Vihear Temple” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.