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Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh or Phnum Penh , city (1994 est. pop. 527,000), capital of Cambodia, SW Cambodia, at the confluence of the Mekong and Tônlé Sap rivers. Phnom Penh was founded in the 14th cent. and was made the Khmer capital after the abandonment (1434) of Angkor . It became the capital of Cambodia in 1867. The city was occupied by the Japanese in World War II. The cultural and commercial center as well as political capital of Cambodia, it was severely stressed and battered by the civil war in the 1970s. The onset (1970) of fighting between government forces and the Khmer Rouge drove refugees from the war-torn countryside to Phnom Penh. Its population swelled from c.500,000 in 1970 to c.2 million in early 1975, when it was evacuated after falling to the Khmer Rouge. By the time the Khmer Rouge were overthrown in 1979, the city had become virtually a ghost town, with no more than 50,000 residents and its universities and cultural institutions no longer in operation. It gradually revived through the 1980s; Phnom Penh Univ. reopened in 1988. The transportation center of Cambodia, Phnom Penh is the focus of four highways radiating out to the provinces. It is the terminus of the country's only two railroads—one extending to the Thai border and another to the deepwater port of Kompong Som on the Gulf of Thailand. There is an international airport in nearby Pochentong. |
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"Phnom Penh." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Phnom Penh." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-PhnomPen.html "Phnom Penh." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-PhnomPen.html |
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Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh (Phnum Pénh), Cambodia Caturmukha/Chatomuk ‘Hill of Abundance’ from phnŏm ‘hill’ and penh ‘abundant’ or ‘full’. However, according to legend, it is called ‘Hill of Penh’. Penh, a rich old lady, found four wooden (or one bronze) statues of Buddha washed up on the bank of the Mekong River. She hauled them/it up onto the nearest hill and constructed a shrine. The original name meant ‘City of Four Faces’, a reference to the fact that it lies at the junction of the Mekong River and the Tonle Sap ‘Great Lake’. Founded in 1434 to be the capital of the Khmer people in place of Angkor Thom, it has been the capital of Cambodia intermittently since 1444 and from 1866.
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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Phnom Penh." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Phnom Penh." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-PhnomPenh.html JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Phnom Penh." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-PhnomPenh.html |
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Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh (Phnum Pénh) Capital of Cambodia, in the s of the country, a port at the confluence of the rivers Mekong and Tonle Sap. Founded in the 14th century, the city was the capital of the Khmers after 1434. In 1865, it became the capital of Cambodia. Occupied by the Japanese during World War 2, it was extensively damaged during the Cambodian civil war. After the Khmer Rouge took power in 1975, the population was drastically reduced when many of its inhabitants were forcibly removed to work in the countryside. Industries: rice milling, brewing, distilling. Pop. (1998) 999,804.
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"Phnom Penh." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Phnom Penh." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-PhnomPenh.html "Phnom Penh." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-PhnomPenh.html |
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Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh (pə)ˌnäm ˈpen the capital of Cambodia, a port at the junction of the Mekong and Tonlé Sap Rivers . It became the capital of a Khmer kingdom in the mid-15th century. Between 1975 and 1979 the Khmer Rouge forced a great many of its population (then 2.5 million) to leave the city and resettle in the country.
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"Phnom Penh." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Phnom Penh." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-PhnomPenh.html "Phnom Penh." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-PhnomPenh.html |
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Phnom Penh
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"Phnom Penh." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Phnom Penh." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-PhnomPenh.html "Phnom Penh." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-PhnomPenh.html |
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