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Gregory Byrne Bracken

A Walking Tour Bangkok. Sketches of the city’s architectural treasures

  • Oxana Yatsenkohas quoted6 years ago
    After 1858, when India became a British crown colony, a number of Indians decided to move to Bangkok rather than stay in their own country under British rule.
  • Oxana Yatsenkohas quoted6 years ago
    The second half of the twentieth century saw uncontrolled urban expansion, particularly to the east. Bangkok in 1900 was about 13 square kilometres, but by 1980 had ballooned to 330 square kilometres,
  • Oxana Yatsenkohas quoted6 years ago
    Rama I then moved the capital, which was known to Westerners as Bancok, or the village of the wild plum
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