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Wikipedia: Angkor is a region of Cambodia that served as the seat of the Khmer empire, which flourished from approximately the ninth century to the thirteenth century. The word Angkor is derived from the Sanskrit nagara (नगर), meaning "city". The Angkorian period began in AD 802, when the Khmer Hindu monarch Jayavarman II declared himself a "universal monarch" and "god-king", until 1431, when Ayutthayan (Thai) invaders sacked the Khmer capital, causing its population to migrate south to the area of Phnom Penh.
![[Ta Phrom Trees taking over the temple]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Ta_Phrom_7_s.jpg "Ta Phrom Trees taking over the temple")
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![[Face towers of the Bayon represent the king as the Bodhisattva Lokesvara]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Faces_Of_Bayon_s.jpg "Face towers of the Bayon represent the king as the Bodhisattva Lokesvara")
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![[Portrait of Jayavarman VII on display at Musee Guimet, Paris]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Guimet_IMG_6009_Jayavarman7_s.jpg "Portrait of Jayavarman VII on display at Musee Guimet, Paris")
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![[An 11th- or 12th-century Cambodian bronze statue of Vishnu]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Museum_f_C3_BCr_Indische_Kunst_Dahlem_Berlin_Mai_2006_036_2_s.jpg "An 11th- or 12th-century Cambodian bronze statue of Vishnu")
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