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The city nearest the temples of Angkor, on a river that rises in the Kulen hills and ends in the Tonle Sap.  +
The great lake that swells in the flood; people live on its water in floating and stilt villages.  +
Built in the 12th century for Vishnu by Suryavarman II, it became a center of Buddhist worship that monks kept up for centuries.  +
The walled royal city Jayavarman VII built in the late 12th century; a laterite wall about 3 kilometers on each side encloses it.  +
Jayavarman VII built it around 1200 as the state temple of Angkor Thom, at the center of the city's plan of the universe.  +
Founded in 1186 as a Buddhist monastery, it has been left much as it was found, with trees growing out of its ruins.  +
A Buddhist temple of Jayavarman VII's reign; in 2001 archaeologists dug up 274 statues buried in its grounds.  +
Built by Jayavarman VII in honor of his father; in 1191 a statue of Lokeshvara was consecrated in its central tower.  +
A 10th-century Hindu temple of red sandstone consecrated in 967, built not by a king but by a royal teacher.  +
A 9th-century Khmer royal capital at Roluos whose royal temples are Preah Ko, Bakong and Lolei.  +
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The city nearest the temples of Angkor; the Siem Reap River, one of four streams from Phnom Kulen, runs through its center to the Tonle Sap.  +
A sacred sandstone plateau regarded as the birthplace of the Khmer Empire; UNESCO dates Jayavarman II's declaration of independence there to 802 CE.  +
Left unrestored in the forest, it lay hidden until French explorers reached it in the late 19th century; landmines kept it closed for decades.  +
Also called Lingapura, "the city of lingas", it was a 10th-century capital of the Khmer Empire.  +
Its sanctuaries run along an 800-meter axis, north to south, unusually for a Khmer temple, on a promontory of the Dângrêk Mountains.  +
One of the largest Khmer complexes outside Angkor; its name most probably means "The Barracks", not the often-translated "Citadel of Cats".  +
A pre-Angkorian temple site identified as Ishanapura, capital of Chenla; an inscription there dated 627 CE is in ancient Khmer and Sanskrit.  +
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The capital, where the Tonle Sap and the Bassac meet the Mekong; its name comes from Daun Penh and the hill she raised.  +
The royal capital from the early 17th century to the 1860s; its hill carries the stupas of past kings.  +
A city on the Sangker River in a province long called Cambodia's rice bowl; a 1907 treaty returned it to Cambodia from Siam.  +
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