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Key

Siam (Ayutthaya) Burma (the Toungoo kings) Lan Xang Cambodia The Nguyễn south of Đại Việt The Lê–Trịnh north of Đại Việt bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Military history of Myanmar — the Nyaungyan restoration: Syriam (1613), Martaban's submission, Tavoy, Tenasserim and the fall of Chiang Mai (1613–14), with Lan Xang's help to Lan Na — source
  2. Minye Thihathu II of Toungoo and Nanda Bayin — the fall of Pegu, Naresuan's siege of Toungoo, de Brito at Syriam, Nanda's death (after Harvey, Lieberman and the Burmese chronicles) — source
  3. Nyaungyan Min — the Shan campaigns, Mone, and Naresuan's death at Mueang Haeng, 25 April 1605 — source
  4. M. Vickery, review of Mak Phoeun, Histoire du Cambodge de la fin du XVIe au début du XVIIIe siècle, BEFEO 83 (1996): Soriyopear's return from Ayutthaya (1602), the Siamese invasion of 1622, the Nguyễn marriage — source
  5. Mak Phoeun and Po Dharma, 'La première intervention militaire vietnamienne au Cambodge (1658–1659)', BEFEO 73 (1984): Outey's regency, Ramathipadi I, the Nguyễn princess, Prey Nokor (1623), the 1658 intervention — source
  6. Trịnh–Nguyễn phân tranh (Vietnamese Wikipedia, after the Toàn thư and the Đại Nam thực lục): the campaigns of 1627, 1648 and 1655–60 — source
  7. Đào Duy Từ and Lũy Thầy (Vietnamese Wikipedia): his career and the walls of 1630–31 — source
  8. Battle of the Gianh River (1643) — Pieter Baeck's squadron and Nguyễn Phúc Tần (after Buch, BEFEO 1936, and VOC records) — source
  9. Cambodian–Dutch War — the killing of Pieter van Regemortes (27 Nov 1643) and the failed expedition of 1644 — source
  10. Prasat Thong and Yamada Nagamasa — the succession of 1628–30 (after van Vliet) — source
  11. Narai and Si Suthammaracha — the three kings of 1656 — source
  12. Lan Na — Siamese overlordship from 1602 and Burmese rule after 1614 — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1650 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

Mainland Southeast Asia, 1600–1660

How did the outer kingdoms Naresuan won for Siam slip from its grasp?
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