Centuries ago, before the rise of Bangkok, Ayudhya was the former capital city of the
Kingdom of Siam. When the city was first established in 1351, the new site was surrounded on
three sides by an ox-bow of the Lopburi River. A canal of 3.5 kilometers long dug to close the
loop which then turned the city into an island measuring 4 kilometers by 2.5 kilometers on the
average cross-sections. The plan of Ayudhya was not static. Constantly restructuring itself, the
changing pattern was caused mainly by new canals being dug to replace older ones which had
either been perpendicular to the natural direction of flow or haphazardly planned and which
frequently became silted. The final reconstructed plan does not therefore represent the city at
any particular period, but rather as the sum total of all the streets, canals, and buildings that had
accumulated over more than four centuries as far as they can still be seen, deduced, or identified.
Centuries ago, before the rise of Bangkok, Ayudhya was the former capital city of theKingdom of Siam. When the city was first established in 1351, the new site was surrounded onthree sides by an ox-bow of the Lopburi River. A canal of 3.5 kilometers long dug to close theloop which then turned the city into an island measuring 4 kilometers by 2.5 kilometers on theaverage cross-sections. The plan of Ayudhya was not static. Constantly restructuring itself, thechanging pattern was caused mainly by new canals being dug to replace older ones which hadeither been perpendicular to the natural direction of flow or haphazardly planned and whichfrequently became silted. The final reconstructed plan does not therefore represent the city atany particular period, but rather as the sum total of all the streets, canals, and buildings that hadaccumulated over more than four centuries as far as they can still be seen, deduced, or identified.
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