Langkasuka

An early Indianized state in the Pattani region of peninsular Thailand. The name of first appears (as Lang-ya-hsiu) in a Chinese source of the 6th century AD, asserting that it was founded 400 years earlier; its name reappears in later Malayan and Javanese chronicles. Langkasuka was the most important of the Indianized states and controlled much of northern Malaya. Malaya developed an international reputation as a source of gold and tin, populated by renowned seafarers. Between the 7th and 13th centuries many of these small, often prosperous peninsular maritime trading states may have come under the loose control of Shrivijaya, the great Sumatra-based empire.

An Indianized state on the Malay Peninsula, the name of which appears (as Lang-ya-hsiu) in a Chinese source of the 6th century, asserting that it was founded 400 years earlier; its name reappears in later Malayan and Javanese chronicles. The kingdom must have been situated astride the Malay Peninsula, therefore controlling one of the land transport routes, and was apparently conquered in the 3rd century by Fan-Man, the first king of Fun an.