Place Institution South Asian traditions
Angkor Wat
अङ्गकोरवाटम् sa अंकोर वाट hi அங்கூர் வாட் ta
Hindu-Buddhist temple complex in Cambodia
- Dated from 12th century CE
- Also called Nokor Wat, Prasat Angkor Wat, Temple City
A place,
and the traditions
recorded there.
Sites, not believers
Figures
Associated figures
Gods and people named with this place — as its founders, or in their own records.
What this means
Founders are named by this place's own record, and a founding is an attribution, often contested. The rest are read from the other end, computed from their records rather than this one. Being named with a place is not being documented there in any given year.
- Khmer people ↗Named as founder
ethnic group native to Cambodia
- Jayavaraman II ↗Named as founder
9th-century king of Cambodia
Site history & evidence
What is documented here
Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.
| Evidence | On record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Site date | Dated from 12th century CE On the timeline | A date for the site as recorded — not the start of worship, and not a floor on the tradition here. |
| Location | Recorded to the site On the atlas | A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent. |
| Dated activity | None recorded | A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Angkor Wat, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
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1.7 km awayBaksei Chamkrong
temple -
3.3 km awayBayon
Khmer temple in Cambodia - 3.5 km away
Ta Prohm
Buddhist temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia - 3.5 km away
Angkor Thom
archaeological site and Hindu empire in Cambodia -
3.7 km awayBaphuon
temple - 3.8 km away
Chau Say Tevoda
archaeological site in Cambodia - 3.9 km away
Banteay Kdei
temple - 3.9 km away
Ta Keo
monastery in Cambodia
Connections
How Angkor Wat connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 2
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Text 1
What this means
A work, its editions and its witnesses are distinct; their dates are not interchangeable.
Does not imply that the work is the only account · that the work is contemporary with what it describes
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Place 1
What this means
Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.
Does not imply that the site as a whole was a place of worship · that its parts were in use at the same time · that these are all the places of worship it held
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
9 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 7 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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