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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 907 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KORAT , the See also:

capital of the provincial See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division (Menton) of Nakawn Racha Sema, or " the frontier See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country," in See also:

SIAM (known to its inhabitants as Muang Thai)

Siam; in 102° 5' E., 14° 59' N. Pop. about 7000, mixed Cambodian and Siamese. It is the headquarters of a high See also:

COMMISSIONER

commissioner and of an See also:

army division. It is the See also:

TERMINUS

terminus of a railway from See also:

BANGKOK

Bangkok, 170 M. distant, and the distributing centre for the whole of the See also:

plateau See also:

DISTRICT

district which forms the eastern See also:

PART

part of Siam. There are See also:

COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

copper mines of reputed See also:

WEALTH

wealth in the neighbourhood. It is the centre of a See also:

SILK

silk-growing district and is the headquarters of the See also:

government sericultural See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department, instituted in 1904 with the assistance of See also:

JAPANESE

Japanese experts for the purpose of improving the quality of Siamese silk. The government is that of an See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary provincial division of Siam. A See also:

French See also:

VICE

vice-See also:

consul resides here. Since the See also:

FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding of See also:

AYUTHIA

Ayuthia in the 14th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, See also:

MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts. Korat has been tributary to, or part of, Siam, with occasional lapses into See also:

independence or temporary subjection to See also:

CAMBODIA

Cambodia. Before that See also:

period it was probably part of Cambodia, as appears from the nature of the ruins still to be seen in its See also:

NEIGHBOUR (O. Eng. neahgebiir, from Walt, " nigh," " near ")

neighbour-See also:

hood. In 1896 the last vestige of its tributary See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition vanished with the introduction of the See also:

PRESENT

present See also:

SYSTEM

system of Siamese rural See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration.

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