Angkor Thom

The site of a temple complex in the northwestern plain of Angkor built about 1200 by King Jayavarman VII (1181-c 1215 AD). In the Khmer language, the name means "the big capital" and it served intermittently as the capital of the Khmer empire from the 11th century onward. It is surrounded with walls and moats of 4-by-4 km and the temple-mountain Bayon is in the center.

[Khmer: ‘the big capital’]. City situated in the northwestern part of the plain of Angkor. It was the capital of the Khmer empire intermittently from the 11th century onward, notably during the reign of king Jayavarman VII (1181-cl218) who surrounded it with walls and moats of 4 by 4 km and built its own temple-mountain, the Bayon, in its very centre.