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On 2 December 1975, the communist party of the Pathet Lao took over Vientiane, defeated the Kingdom of Laos, and renamed the country the Lao People's Democratic Republic, which ended the Laotian Civil War.
5 dni temu · Vientiane, largest city and the capital of Laos, situated on a plain just northeast of the Mekong River. The city’s central river port location in a country relying heavily on rivers for transportation and its surrounding hinterland of intensive rice cultivation have made Vientiane the major.
Patuxai (Lao: ປະຕູໄຊ, pronounced [pā.tùː sáj] ; literally Victory Gate or Gate of Triumph, formerly the Anousavary or Anosavari Monument, known by the French as Monument Aux Morts) is a war monument in Downtown Vientiane, Laos, built between 1957 and 1968. The Patuxai was dedicated to those who fought in the struggle for ...
Laos exists in truncated form from the thirteenth-century Lao kingdom of Lan Xang, which existed as a unified kingdom from 1357 to 1707, divided into the three rival kingdoms of Luang Prabang, Vientiane, and Champasak, from 1707 to 1779.
1 dzień temu · Guided by Marxist-Leninist ideology, Laos emerged from the turmoil in 1975 as a communist country. Economic reforms of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including the development of tourism, have strengthened Laos’s economy, gradually shrinking the country’s debt and diminishing its dependence on international aid. Land
4 lip 2023 · The city was the administrative centre for politics, socio-economics, and culture. However, Vientiane was burnt down by Siamese troops in 1828, and divided into two cities. The city on the southern bank of the Mekong River became part of Siam and the city on the northern side remained part of Laos.
The first was anti-Japanese and was represented by the court of Luang Prabang and Prince Boun Oum of Champasak; the second was anti-French (the Free Laos movement, or Lao Issara), was located in Vientiane, and was led by Prince Phetsarath Ratanavongsa. These two movements remained in conflict until French troops returned, which in early 1946 ...
