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Battambang (băt`əmbăng), city (1995 est. pop. 110,000), capital of Battambang prov., W Cambodia, in a great rice-growing area. The second largest city in Cambodia, it is a market center with numerous rice mills. Textiles are also made. The city is on both the highway and railroad linking Phnom Penh with Thailand; after the outbreak (1970) of civil war in Cambodia, the Battambang–Phnom Penh road was a prime target of the Khmer Rouge insurgents, who, by capturing it, severed Phnom Penh from its major source of rice. Battambang was acquired by Thailand in 1809 and returned to Cambodia in 1907. A technical university is located in the city. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| lylei specimens, located in a pagoda in the village of Bay Damran in Battambang Province. Yet while this prosperous family of mixed Cambodian-Vietnamese ancestry lived a life that was deeply embedded in the surrounding majority culture of rural Cambodia, in a region southeast of the capital, as well as being linked to official life in both Phnom Penh and Battambang, it did not lose touch with its Vietnamese relatives. I was in Battambang, Cambodia's second-largest city. |
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