Mueang Uthong
King of Ayutthaya (present-day Thailand) from 1350 to 1369 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For King of Ayutthaya, see Uthong. For the district, see Amphoe U Thong. For the style of Buddha iconography, see U Thong Style.
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เมืองอู่ทอง | |
Location | Amphoe U Thong, Suphan Buri, Thailand |
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Type | Human settlement |
Area | 1.02 square kilometres (102 ha) |
History | |
Founded | c. 300-600 AD |
Abandoned | 1st: c. 1000 AD 2nd: 1767 AD |
Periods | Ancient history |
Cultures | Dvaravati |
Associated with | Mon people |
Site notes | |
Discovered | 1903 |
Excavation dates | 1930 |
Archaeologists | |
Condition | Partial restoration |
Ownership | Public |
Management | Fine Arts Department, no entry fee |
Public access | Yes |
Architecture | |
Architectural styles |
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Mueang Uthong (Thai: เมืองอู่ทอง) is an archaeological site located in the U Thong district, Suphan Buri province . It was inhabited from around the 10th century BC and became the state society in the third to sixth-century CE.[1][2] Uthong was one of the largest known city-states that emerged around the plains of central Thailand in the first millennium but became abandoned around 1000 AD due to the endemic and lost in major trading cities status.[3] It was resettled in the Ayutthaya period but was abandoned again after the fall of Ayutthaya in the 1760s.[4]
Uthong is also considered the first city-state that practiced Brahmanism and Buddhism in present-day central Thailand.[1]