"trains heading to Bang Wa and Kheha. The station is located on Rama I Road to the west of Pathum Wan intersection in the heart of Siam District. The station is linked via skybridges to the Siam Square One, Siam Paragon, Siam Centre and Centerpoint of Siam Square shopping centres. It is also adjacent to Siam Square. Additionally, an elevated walkway (called Sky Walk) connects Siam station to Central World Plaza, the Ratchaprasong junction and Chit Lom station. Siam BTS station Siam station () is the cross-platform interchange station for the BTS Skytrain in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, Thailand. The"
"is that Mon-speaking peoples migrating south called themselves 'syem' as do the autochthonous Mon-Khmer-speaking inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula. The signature of King Mongkut (r. 1851–1868) reads ""SPPM"" (Somdet Phra Poramenthra Maha) ""Mongkut King of the Siamese"", giving the name ""Siam"" official status until 24 June 1939 when it was changed to Thailand. Thailand was renamed to Siam from 1946 to 1948, after which it again reverted to Thailand. According to George Cœdès, the word ""Thai"" () means ""free man"" in the Thai language, ""differentiating the Thai from the natives encompassed in Thai society as serfs"". A famous Thai scholar"
"century. Through the 18th and 19th centuries, Siam faced pressure from France and the United Kingdom, including forced concessions of territory, but nevertheless it remained the only Southeast Asian country to avoid direct Western rule. Following a bloodless revolution in 1932, Siam became a constitutional monarchy and changed its official name to ""Thailand"". While it joined the Allies in World War I, Thailand was an Axis satellite in World War II. In the late 1950s, a military coup revived the monarchy's historically influential role in politics. Thailand became a major ally of the United States and played a key anti-communist"
"Sisophon Province Sisophon was a ""changwat"" (province) of Thailand. In 1906 it was ceded to French Indochina. It is now part of Cambodia and known as Banteay Meanchey. During the 16th century and before, Sisophon was known as ""Srey Saophon"" meaning in Khmer ""Beautiful Lady"" and it was a small district, belonging to Battambang Province. After the 17th century the Siamese took over Battambang Province and Siem Reap Province in a successful military campaign. Battambang Province and Siem Reap province were established as provinces of Siam and renamed as Phra Tabong and Siam Nakhon respectively and Srey Saophon was renamed"
"the internal situation were banned. On 23 June 1939, Phibun changed the country's name from Siam to Prathet Thai (Thai: ประเทศไทย), or Thailand, said to mean ""land of the free"". This was directed against the ethnic diversity in the country (Malay, Chinese, Lao, Shan, etc.) and is based on the idea of a ""Thai race"", a Pan-Thai nationalism whose policy is the integration of the Shan, the Lao and other Tai peoples, such as Vietnam, Burma and South China, into a ""Great Kingdom of Thailand"" () Modernisation was also an important theme in Phibun's new Thai nationalism. From 1939 to"
"up the Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserve. In modern times the province is best known as the site of Angkor and the Angkor Wat temple ruins. The name ""Siem Reap"" literally means ""Siam Defeated"", a reminder of the centuries-old conflict between the Siamese and the Khmer. In Siam, the province and its capital were called ""Siemmarat"" (), literally meaning ""Siam's Territory"". The province came under the control of the Thai kingdom of Siam in 1795 and was later returned to Cambodia in 1907 after French made a treaty with Siam for exchange of Trat and Dan Sai for the Siamese province"
"Siam Nakhon Province Siam Nakhon (Thai: สยามนคร) is the name of a former Thai province. It was a ""changwat"" (province) of Siam, but was ceded to French Indochina in 1907. The name of Siam Nakhon was later changed to Siem Reap in Cambodian. The capital city of the Khmer Empire in ancient times was declining in the 17th century. In the mid-fourteenth century, the Siamese or Thai speaking people, from Chao Phraya River plain, rose to power. The new Siamese kingdom of Ayutthaya was founded and started expanding eastwards, towards Angkor. After years of internal strife in Angkor, Angkor was"
"Banteay Meanchey Province. Sisophon Province Sisophon was a ""changwat"" (province) of Thailand. In 1906 it was ceded to French Indochina. It is now part of Cambodia and known as Banteay Meanchey. During the 16th century and before, Sisophon was known as ""Srey Saophon"" meaning in Khmer ""Beautiful Lady"" and it was a small district, belonging to Battambang Province. After the 17th century the Siamese took over Battambang Province and Siem Reap Province in a successful military campaign. Battambang Province and Siem Reap province were established as provinces of Siam and renamed as Phra Tabong and Siam Nakhon respectively and Srey"
"as Sisophon. In the early 1900s the French colonial administration of Cambodia forced the Siamese government to cede Battambang Province and Siem Reap Province to the French Protectorate of Cambodia and the names of these province reverted to their Khmer names. In 1907 Srisophon was changed officially back to Serey Saophoan meaning in Khmer ""Beautiful Freedom"" implying freedom from the nearly 200 years of Siamese control. After the Khmer Rouge years, Battambang Province was broken up into two provinces. Those provinces are now a part of present-day Battambang Province and Banteay Meanchey Province. Sisophon was made the capital city of"
"""Siam"" ( , , also spelled ""Siem"", ""Syâm"", or ""Syâma""). The word ""Siam"" may have originated from Pali (""suvaṇṇabhūmi"", “land of gold”) or Sanskrit श्याम (""śyāma"", “dark”) or Mon ရာမည(""rhmañña"", “stranger”). The names ""Shan"" and ""A-hom"" seem to be variants of the same word. The word ""Śyâma"" is possibly not its origin, but a learned and artificial distortion. Another theory is the name derives from Chinese: ""Ayutthaya emerged as a dominant centre in the late fourteenth century. The Chinese called this region Xian, which the Portuguese converted into Siam."" (Baker and Phongpaichit, A History of Thailand, 8) A further possibility"
"Siam became Thailand. Thailand appeared in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where they lost to Great Britain by a score of 0–9 (the largest defeat in team history) and failed to advance to the quarterfinals. In 1965, Thailand won the first place in the Southeast Asian Games for the first time. The team made another appearance at the Summer Olympics in 1968, losing to Bulgaria 0–7, Guatemala 1–4, and Czechoslovakia 0–8 en route to a first-round exit. This was Thailand's latest appearance in the Olympics. 1992 featured one of Thailand's signature victories. Playing in Bangkok against South Korea, who"
"who at the time were harshly repressed. In 1939, Phibun changed the country's name from ""Siam"" to ""Thailand"". In 1941, in the midst of World War II, he decreed 1 January as the official start of the new year instead of the traditional 13 April. Ardently pro-Japanese at the beginning, Phibun and his administration soon distanced themselves from Japan following the aftermath of the French-Thai War. This conflict lasted from October 1940 to May 1941. Following the peace talks, the Japanese gained the right to occupy French Indo-China. Threatened with war, Phibun stated that the Japanese would be the transgressors."
"Britain and Siam over the disputed territories in the north of Malaya. Siam's next conflict was its two-year involvement in the First World War, fighting on the side of the Entente Powers, the only independent Asian nation with land forces in Europe during the Great War. The result of this intervention in 1917 was the revision or complete cancellation of some of the unequal trade treaties with the United States, France, and the British Empire – but not the return of the bulk of the disputed Siamese territories lost in the previous century. For Thailand – renamed from Siam in"
"newspapers were instructed to print only good news emanating from Axis sources, while sarcastic comments about the internal situation were banned. On 23 June 1939, Phibun changed the country's name from Siam to Prathet Thai (Thai: ประเทศไทย), or Thailand, said to mean ""land of the free"". This was a nationalist gesture: it implied the unity of all the Tai-speaking peoples, including the Lao and the Shan, but excluding the Chinese. The regime's slogan became ""Thailand for the Thai."" Modernisation was also an important theme in Phibun's new Thai nationalism. From 1939 to 1942 he issued a set of twelve Cultural"
"in Bangkok. Phibunsongkhram renamed Siam to Thailand, a name change which was part of a larger political movement to unify all Tai peoples under the central Thai of Bangkok. The French viewed these developments with alarm, but the Vichy Government was diverted by events in Europe and World War II. Despite a non-aggression treaty signed in June 1940, Thailand took advantage of the French position and initiated the Franco-Thai War. The war concluded unfavorably for Lao interests with the ""Treaty of Tokyo"", and the loss of trans-Mekong territories of Xainyaburi and part of Champasak. The result was Lao distrust of"
"Franco-Thai Treaty of 1906, due to the higher military power of the colonial French. The French position being the former relationships of the court of Angkor to the Vietnamese (also a part of French Indochina), the history of Angkor as the capital of the Khmer empire and the French desire for the complete territorial integrity of French Indochina. The province was renamed Siem Reap, which in Khmer means ""Defeat of Siam"", referring to the fact that the Siamese were no longer in control of the ancient Khmer capital of Angkor Thom and its temples, particularly Angkor Wat. Siam Nakhon Province"
"History of Thailand The history of Thailand concerns the history of the Thai people, who originally lived in southwestern China, and migrated into mainland Southeast Asia over a period of many centuries. The word ""Siam"" ( ) may have originated from Pali (""suvaṇṇabhūmi"", ""land of gold"") or Sanskrit श्याम (""śyāma"", “dark”) or Mon ရာမည (""rhmañña"", ""stranger""), probably the same root as Shan and Ahom. was the name for the northern kingdom centred on Sukhothai and Sawankhalok, but to the Thai themselves, the name of the country has always been ""Mueang Thai"". The country's designation as Siam by Westerners likely came"
"(, , ""Thai Gulf"") and ""Gulf of Thailand"" has been adopted as the official name of the body by the International Hydrographic Organization. Its name in Malay and Khmer continues to be the ""Gulf of Siam"", ""Teluk Siam"" and "", Chhoung Samut Siem"", respectively. In Thai, the gulf is historically known as ""Ao Sayam"" (). In Vietnamese it is known as ""Vịnh Thái Lan"". It is generally identified with the Great Gulf () known to Greek, Roman, Arab, Persian, and Renaissance cartographers before the influx of Portuguese explorers removed the phantom Dragon Tail peninsula from European world maps in the"
"of office and Phibunsongkhram assumed the premiership a second time. The cultural policy of Khuang and Pridi was canceled The hallmarks of the cultural restoration, as promulgated in January 1946, were: On 7 September 1946 the Thai government announced that the name of the country would revert to Siam, since the country did not only belong to the Thai race. The name reverted to Thailand in 1949. After the ""coup d'état"" in 1947, in which Khuang was restored to power, the Supreme Council of State of Siam (, which was dissolved during the Siamese revolution of 1932, was restored. Thai"
"the rest of Siam. In exchange, Siam had to give up its claim to the Thai-speaking region of north-eastern Burma to the British, and cede Laos to France. The French continued to pressure Siam, and in 1902 they manufactured another crisis. This time Siam had to concede French control of territory on the west bank of the Mekong opposite and around in southern Laos, as well as western Cambodia. France also occupied the western part of . In 1904, to get back Chantaburi, Siam had to give and Koh Kong to French Indochina. became part of Thailand again on 23"
"II in 1989. The first missionaries to Thailand were Portuguese Dominicans who arrived in ""Siam"" in 1554, as it was then known. Siam was a Buddhist kingdom which welcomed Christians for their knowledge. By the 19th century most Catholic missionaries from Europe were from the Paris Foreign Missions Society (""Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris"" – MEP), living in enclaves and exempt from national jurisdiction and taxation. During the 1930s there was a growing sense of anxiety and crisis as Japan invaded China and threatened south-east Asia. The country’s name was changed to Thailand in 1939. The government adopted a"
"general eventually executed the ousted Taksin, contradicting to some earlier sources. He then seized power and made himself King, establishing the Chakri Dynasty, which continues to rule Thailand to this day. General Maha Kasatsuek crowned himself on 6 April 1782. Soon after, he decided to move the capital of Siam to the east bank of the Chao Phraya river for several reasons, including its better strategic location and a desire to promote his legitimacy by starting from a clean slate. He decided to name his new capital ""Rattanakosin"" (""Keeping place of the Emerald Buddha""). Rama I also raised various members"
"Siam (in modern Thailand), establishing their own settlement there. Though north and west Bengal were part of the empire southern Bengal thrived and became powerful with her overseas trades. In 326 BCE, with the invasion of Alexander the Great the region again came to prominence. The Greek and Latin historians suggested that Alexander the Great withdrew from India anticipating the valiant counterattack of the mighty Gangaridai empire that was located in the Bengal region. Alexander, after the meeting with his officer, Coenus, was convinced that it was better to return. Diodorus Siculus mentions Gangaridai to be the most powerful empire"
"intervention and domination by both of Cambodia's more powerful neighbors, Vietnam and Siam. Siem Reap, along with Battambang (Phra Tabong) and Sisophon, major cities in the northwest of Cambodia, was under Siamese administration and the provinces were collectively known as Inner Cambodia from 1795 until 1907, when they were ceded to French Indochina. During the 18th century, under the rule of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, it was known as Nakhorn Siam (Siam's city). Siem Reap was little more than a village when French explorers such as Henri Mouhot ""re-discovered"" Angkor in the 19th century. However, European visitors had visited the temple"
"Assam"" by Europeans till 1821, when the Ahom kingdom became part of the Burmese Empire. After Assam became part of British India, the newly constituted province came to be known by its new anglicised name Assam after its largest constituent, and the name ""Assamese / Asamiya"" came to be associated with the Assamese language which was erstwhile known as Kamrupi. According to Yasmin Saikia, ""the group that now identifies as Tai–Ahom were historically seen as the Assamese people. However, the term ethnic Assamese is now associated by the Indian government at Delhi with the Assamese speaking Indo–Aryan, Tibeto-Burman and Austric"
"Siam was defined as buffer state. After the Franco-Siamese War, King Chulalongkorn realized the threat of the western colonial powers, and made an intention to accelerated the extensive reforms in the administration, the military, the economy and society. This thus ended the development of Siam from a traditional feudalist structure based on personal domination and dependencies, whose peripheral areas were only indirectly bound to the central power (the King), to a centrally-governed national state with established borders and modern political institutions. The Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 defined the modern border between Siam and British Malaya, The treaty stated that Siam"
"yesterday, they were led by a man who wasn't there"". The former capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, was officially renamed Hồ Chí Minh City on 2 July 1976 by the new Communist Party of Vietnam-controlled National Assembly of Vietnam. However, the name provokes strong anti-Communist feeling in a substantial number of Vietnamese. Some native Vietnamese sometimes refer to the city as Sài Gòn out of custom and convenience, however most Vietnamese living abroad reject the new Communist-imposed name, choosing to honor the former capital of anti-Communist Republic of Vietnam. His embalmed body is on display in Hanoi in a granite"
"seen today in Thailand where it remains a popular cat. Starting in the late 1800s, the ' was first imported to the West, starting with England, and the cats became known as ""Siamese"" or the ""Royal Cat of Siam"", after the name of the ruling dynasty at the time in Siam (today Thailand). Cat fanciers were impressed with the graceful, ""marten-faced"" cats so very different from the cobby, rounder native breeds and longhairs. Western breeders wanted to emphasize and augment the qualities that made the cats so different and through selective breeding, they developed an increasingly elongated, angular, finer-boned type"
"length and even affords communication into the heart of Siam"". Under French rule Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia became a single administrative and economic unit. The coastal region ""Circonscription Résidentielle"" with Kampot as its capital contained the Arrondissements of Kampot, Kompong Som, Trang and Kong-Pisey. The establishment of another international trading center near the existing city of Saigon was not considered necessary. Focus remained the Mekong, and the idea to establish an alternative route to Chinese and Thai internal markets along an uninterrupted navigable waterway from the Red River to the Mekong Delta. An insurrection that took place from 1885 to"
"conquered by the Kingdom of Siam in 1785 and, except for Kelantan, has been governed by Thailand ever since. Although low-level separatist violence had occurred in the region for decades, the campaign escalated after 2001, with a recrudescence in 2004, and has occasionally spilled over into other provinces. Incidents blamed on southern insurgents have occurred in Bangkok and Phuket. In July 2005, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra assumed wide-ranging emergency powers to deal with the southern violence, but the insurgency escalated further. On 19 September 2006, a military junta ousted Thaksin Shinawatra in a coup. The junta implemented a major policy"
"Siam under King Rama V. After his return to Siam, Wichitwathakan met again with Pridi Phanomyong and Plaek Pibulsongkram, the conspirators of the Siamese coup d'état of 1932. Wichitwathakan was chairman of the committee which proposed changing the country's name from Siam to Thailand at the state convention in 1939. He led an irredentist campaign after being presented a map produced by Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Orient showing the Thai race inhabiting the areas of Siam, Burma, and southern China. Wichitwathakan estimated from this map that there were approximately 60 million Thais inhabiting the lands of southern China and Southeast Asia,"
"ruled by Siam. The degree of independence enjoyed by Cambodia fluctuated according to the relative fortunes of Siam, Cambodia. and the French colonists. In 1907, Siam ceded northern Cambodia to France. In the 1930s, this loss became the basis of the nationalist government’s claim that the area was a ""lost territory"" which rightfully belonged to Thailand. In 1941, following a war with Vichy France, Thailand briefly regained the territories ceded to France in 1907. This claim was not abandoned until the 1950s. Thailand's rapid economic progress during the 1980s and 1990s made its economy one of the strongest in Southeast"
"splendens"" species are native to Thailand and were first collected for fighting during the reign of King Rama III. Thailand Thailand () ( ), officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam (), is a country at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces. At and over 68 million people, Thailand is the world's 50th largest country by total area and the 21st-most-populous country. The capital and largest city is Bangkok, a special administrative area. Thailand is bordered to the north by Myanmar and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to"