Description

Historians describe Cambodia as the Khmer State or the Angkorian Empire Khmer from the 9th century to the 15th century when it was a Hindu/Buddhist empire in Southeast Asia The empire which developed from the old societies of Funan and Chenla governed and/or vassalized the majority of mainland Southeast Asia and parts of Southern China covering from the suggestion of the Indochinese Peninsula northward to modernday Yunnan province in China and from Vietnam westward to Myanmar The Khmer Empire was greater at its peak than the Byzantine Empire Eastern Roman Empire that existed at the exact same period