Laos History

THE BREIF HISTORY OF LAOS The rudimentary structures of a multiethnic state existed before the founding of the Kingdom of Lan Xang in the thirteenth…

THE PRE-HISTORY OF LAOS The south of Laos boasts one of the world’s largest deposits of dinosaur bones. During the 1930s French geologist Josue Heilman…

THE MON AND KHMER KINGDOMS The Mon-Khmer speaking peoples are believed to have migrated into mainland South East Asia from either south west China or…

THE EARLY THAI KINGDOMS The Tai-Kadai speaking peoples (of which the Lao are an ethnic sub-group) are believed to have begun migrating south from the…

THE LANE XANG KINGDOM During the late 14th century Muang Xiang Dong Xiang Thong (modern Luang Prabang) emerged from Khmer suzerainty to become the kingdom…

THE THREE KINGDOMS Following the division of Lane Xang into the three rival kingdoms of Luang Prabang, Vientiane and Champassak, Siamese influence in the region…

THE COUNTRY OF LAOS UNDER THE FRENCH The colonial era began in the 1859 with the French conquest of Sai Gon. In 1862 Viet King…

THE LAOS ROYAL GOVERNMENT The Franco-Lao Treaty of 1953 created a sovereign, independent Laos, but failed to settle the issue of who would rule the…

THE LAOS SINCE 1975 In December 1975, the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) was declared the ruling party of the newly-christened People’s Democratic Republic of…