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*''Dates: [[1351]]-[[1767]]''

*''Dates: [[1351]]-[[1767]]''

Ayutthaya was a Siamese kingdom known by the name of its capital city. In the 16th to early 17th centuries, Ayutthaya was one of the most powerful and prominent polities in Southeast Asia, and the most prominent Southeast Asian trading partner with Japan and the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. Its capital was also home to the largest ''[[Nihonmachi]]'' (Japantown) of the era; the community housed as many as 1,500 Japanese at its peak in the 1620s,<ref name=gunn222>Geoffrey Gunn, ''History Without Borders: The Making of an Asian World Region, 1000-1800'', Hong Kong University Press (2011), 222-223.</ref> including some six hundred warriors, and four hundred Japanese Christians,<ref name=pol23>Polenghi, 23-24.</ref> while the city of Ayutthaya as a whole boasted a population over 100,000. A small number of Siamese ships, officially under the name of either the king or one of the royal princes, traveled to [[Nagasaki]] over the course of the 16th-18th centuries. Despite [[kaikin|maritime restrictions]] against trade with most outside powers, Nagasaki accepted these Siamese ships under the category of "Dutch ships," given their Western-style construction.

Ayutthaya was a Siamese kingdom known by the name of its capital city. In the 16th to early 17th centuries, Ayutthaya was one of the most powerful and prominent polities in Southeast Asia, and the most prominent Southeast Asian trading partner with Japan and the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. Its capital was also home to the largest ''[[Nihonmachi]]'' (Japantown) of the era; the community housed as many as 1,500 Japanese at its peak in the 1620s,<ref name=gunn222>Geoffrey Gunn, ''History Without Borders: The Making of an Asian World Region, 1000-1800'', Hong Kong University Press (2011), 222-223.</ref> including some six hundred warriors, and four hundred Japanese Christians,<ref name=pol23>Polenghi, 23-24.</ref> while the city of Ayutthaya as a whole boasted a population over 100,000.<ref>Bangkok was, incidentally, only a small village at the time. Polenghi, 72n2.</ref> A small number of Siamese ships, officially under the name of either the king or one of the royal princes, traveled to [[Nagasaki]] over the course of the 16th-18th centuries. Despite [[kaikin|maritime restrictions]] against trade with most outside powers, Nagasaki accepted these Siamese ships under the category of "Dutch ships," given their Western-style construction.

==Origins==

==Origins==