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Which year did siam become Thailand? What year was siam renamed thailand? Why did siams name change to thailand? Which year did siam change to thailand? Why did the name Siam turn into thailand? In what year did siam change to thailand?
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wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_Siam_change_its_name_to_Thai...
wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_Siam_change_its_name_to_Thailand
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Siam was NEVER Vietnam, Siam was Thailand in the olden days.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_did_Siam_become_Vietnam
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From 1768 to 1932 the area of modern Thailand was dominated by Siam, an absolute monarchy .... and modernise Siam when he came to the throne, which he did in 1851. .... By 1910, when the King died, Siam had become at least a semi-modern ...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattanakosin_Kingdom
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A Synopsis of Thailand History: 6000 years. ... Relatively unique globally Thailand avoided being an European colony. Southeast Asia with the exception of Thailand / Siam became European colonies with their native culture / heritage destroyed by arrogant European hegemony.
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www.csmngt.com/thailand_history.htm
www.csmngt.com/thailand_history.htm
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Thailand was known to the "west" as Siam until 1939. Sayam, from which Siam came, was the name for Thailand in the the Szechwan dialect of Chinese. ... The Preah Vihear Temple built in 1053 has become front page news in 2008.
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www.csmngt.com/thailand1.htm
www.csmngt.com/thailand1.htm
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It is also interesting to note that the return address uses Thailand while the stamp still says Siam. "Thailand" was used because Siam had become Thailand in June, 1939, only 7 months before this cover. It reverted to Siam in September, 1945 but was changed again to Thailand on 10 May 1949.*;;
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www.stampwhiz.com/012640.html
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--> SIAMESE TWINS: DEBATE OVER A BAN; By Blair Shewchuk; CBC News Online ... Siamese are people from Siam or Thailand. ... Part of the reason may be that Siam became Thailand in 1939. Perhaps many of us don't think of Siam as a place any more, so the adjective Siamese seems unobjectionable.
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www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/words/siamese.html
www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/words/siamese.html
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The seasons are more extreme in the northern regions, where the dry heat can grow quite intense in late spring and the cool can become cold in the mountains. The rainy season is no detriment to travel in Thailand, as the rains can be cool ... Unlike most of the other countries of Southeast Asia, Thailand (or Siam,
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www.geographia.com/thailand/
www.geographia.com/thailand/
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Thus did Siam become Thailand, from thai or "free" -- an apt name for their happy-go-lucky tribe and polity. ... Bowring may have steamed into Siam with pound sterling signs in his eyes and the British navy at his heel, but he seems eventually to have become what so many other visitors to Siam have become since:
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www.thingsasian.com/stories-photos/2142
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