History of Laos

[Sangahnon]

Maybe people that can read Lao can translate this info for us. According to this info. people in Ayutthaya were still refered to as Lao.

http://www.savannanet.com/sisonghak.html

[Sangahnon]

Originally Posted by 1kzlao

The Taksin and the Chakri are were military people who brought themselves to power right? I wonder if thats the same with the Lao Royals. Can the house of Luang Prabang trace back to Fa Ngum?

Gary, i believe Fa Ngum was banished by his family when he was young and he was raised by Khmer king then he married a Khmer princess. I think he came back to Lanxang with Khmer army to defeat his uncle, who ruled Luang Prabang or Northern Lao and then ruled Lanna as well. I think he's related to royals of Lanna as well.

[souphanhali]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nooUmOA4dRM .. Reflections On Issan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC4D3V3QWYA. Thai History.

[1kzlao]

I find Lao history after French occupation more interesting than the older periods. Mainly because it's interesting to see how Lao people dealt with the modernizing world around their kingdoms. One day they're riding elephants and the next, they're riding planes, trains and motorcycles. It's really interesting.

[Sangahnon]

Gary, Lao kingdom was much bigger prior to that so to me Lanxang was already in decline when the French made it as part of it's French Indochina territory. If anything else we should try to learn from that history of how the Lao kingdom went into decline due greed and infighting among the monarchs.

[souphanhali]

New year 2010. I have some good source website for all of Lao people to understand more about History of Lao since 1945.
Contents.
1. The kingdom of Laos
2. Communism in Laos
3.Geneva and First Coalition
4. North Vietnam Invasion
5. The failure of neutralism
6.Laos as a battlefield
7. Communist Laos
8. Relation with Vietnam.
9. Contemporary Laos

Also History of LAOS to 1945 included
1. Earliest know history and founding of Laxang
2. Before full independence in 1954
3. The period of the kingdom of Laos
4.The period of the communist government/ contemporary period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...ng_of_Lan_Xang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Laos_since_1945 to 2006

[Teh]

http://refugeenation.blogspot.com/

More about our history

[souphanhali]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQAg_GyR4Sw Lao Issara from number 1 to 59.
Lao History. All Lao People must know

[1kzlao]

Here is a very interesting interview. It's old. But it does help paint a better picture of the events leading up to the fall of the monarchy.
http://www.laosnet.org/nationlao/interviewgb.htm

[1kzlao]

Here is a great read on the war. It's amazing to me how young the Kong le and Vang Pao were as generals. Not much older than I am now. Kong Le must have been around 30 when he was able to take over Vientiane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian_Civil_War

Wiki on Issara

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_Issara