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Phuket is the modern name for the island, and a variation on the older
spelling a Thai 'T' has been substituted for a Thai 'J' in the Thai language
spelling of the world which evidence shows was itself an exact translation
of the word 'manidram', used Tamil visitors from India as long ago as 1025
A.D. It means 'Crystal (or jewel-like). Because Phuket was a well-known stop
among sailor in ancient remains, map, and texts, where it states that in
traveling from Suwanapoom down to the Malay Peninsula, one passes 'Cape Junk
Ceylon', which is a name often seen on old maps applied to Phuket.
During the
Ayttaya period, the Dutch arrived and built storehouses to use in the tin
trade. Thus the northern, and central parts of the by Thais, and the
southern and western portions were where foreigners came to buy tin ore.
During the beginning of the Rattanakosin, that is the present period (c.
1780), the Burmese King brought his armies to attack various cities in
Thailand, and came constantly to attack Thalang in the south. At that time
the governor had recently passed away. Khunying Jan, the governor's wife and
Khun Mock, her younger sister, ollected forces to fight with the Burmese
army, and finally defeated them on March 13, 1785. The King Rama I bestowed
upon Khunying Jan the honorific title, Thao Thep Krasattri, and upon Khun
Mock, Thao Sri Sunthorn. Afterward Phuket grew and prospered through the
mining sale of tin.
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