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Sukhi in Sukhothai

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February 4th 2010
I took a bus west to continue my tour of Thailand's capitals. This city was the first- Sukhothai. The name literally means "Dawn of Happiness". Yet more evidence of Vedic influence- "Sukkhi" means "happy" in Hindi and Bengali (and probably most Sanskrit-based languages). The main city of modern Sukhothai ain't much to look at, and the settlement built by the old ruins is just a small row of bu ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more