SIAM

(KINGDOM OF SIAM)     1782 – 1932

Siam (en tailandés: สยาม)  era un reino situado en el centro del sudeste de Asia,  que comprendía los territorios de lo que hoy es Tailandia, Camboya y Laos.
Según diversas fuentes extranjeras, la capital del Reino de Siam fue Ayutthaya desde el siglo XVI hasta el siglo XVIII.  Bangkok, la nueva capital,  fue llamada posteriormente Siam. Entre el 24 y el 27 de junio del 1932, el gobierno de Siam cambió oficialmente el nombre del país aTailandia.

ESCUDO DEL REY DE SIAM.

Supuestamente la gente no local habría llamado Siam a lo que era el Reino de Ayutthaya, cuando los habitantes locales ya se conocían a sí mismos como Tai o Thai procedentes del Yunnan.  Fuentes chinas también lo llamaban Xian, o Luo Xian Guo.

BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ, ULTIMO REY DE SIAM.

Despite European pressure, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian nation to never have been colonized. This has been ascribed to the long succession of able rulers in the past four centuries who exploited the rivalry and tension between the French and British Empire. 

1 BATH DE 1932.

 

MONEDA DEL REY RAMA V – 1905.

In 1896, Britain and France guaranteed of the Chao Phraya valley as their buffer state (not the whole of Siam),  while the remaining parts of Southeast Asia were colonized by the western powers. Western influence nevertheless led to many reforms in the 19th century and major concessions, most notably the loss of a large territory on the east side of the Mekong to the French and the step-by-step absorption by Britain of the Shan and Karen people areas and Malay Peninsula.

SELLO DEL REY RAMA V – 1899.

As part of the concessions which the Chakri dynasty offered to the British Empire in return for their support, Siam ceded four predominantly ethnic-Malay southern provinces to the British Empire in the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909. These four provinces (Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah, and Perlis) would later became Malaysia’s four northern states.

REINO DE SIAM – 1904.

In 1917, Siam joined the Allies of World War I and is counted as one of the victors of World War I. The bloodless revolution took place in 1932 carried out by the Khana Ratsadon group of military and civilian officials resulted in a transition of power, when King Prajadhipok was forced to grant the people of Siam their first constitution, thereby ending centuries of absolute monarchy.

In 1939, the name of the kingdom, «Siam», was changed to «Thailand».

REY DE SIAM CHAKRAPONGA Y SU ESPOSA RUSA CATHERINE DESNITSKAYA.

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