Seat of the Khmer Empire The Angkorian period may have begun shortly after 800 AD, when the Khmer King Jayavarman II announced the independence of Kambujadesa (Cambodia) from Java. According to Sdok Kok Thom inscription, circa 781 Indrapura was the first capital of Jayavarman II, located in Banteay Prei Nokor, near today's Kompong Cham. After he eventually returned to his home, the former kingdom of Chenla, he quickly built up his influence, conquered a series of competing kings, and in 790 became king of a kingdom called Kambuja by the Khmer. He then moved his court northwest to Mahendraparvata, in present day Kulen mountains, inland north from the great lake of Tonle Sap.
Seat of the Khmer Empire The Angkorian period may have begun shortly after 800 AD when the Khmer King Jayavarman II announced the independence of Kambujadesa (Cambodia) from Java According to Sdok Kok Thom inscription circa 781 Indrapura was the first capital of Jayavarman II located in Banteay Prei Nokor near today's Kompong Cham After he eventually returned to his home the former kingdom of Chenla he quickly built up his influence conquered a series of competing kings and in 790 became king of a kingdom called Kambuja by the Khmer He then moved his court northwest to Mahendraparvata in present day Kulen mountains inland north from the great lake of Tonle Sap