Chin Lin or Kim Lin (Chinese: 金鄰/金邻; Thai: จินหลิน/กิมหลิน) was an ancient political entities in modern lower central Thailand exited from the 9 CE to the 3rd century.[1]: 27
Chin Lin/Kim Lin (金鄰/金邻国) (จินหลิน/กิมหลิน) | |||||||||
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| 9 CE–c. 3rd century CE | |||||||||
  Chin Lin? Chin Lin? Proposed locations of Chin Lin | |||||||||
| Capital | Mueang Uthong? | ||||||||
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| Historical era | 9 CE -3rd centuries CE | ||||||||
• Established | 9 CE | ||||||||
• Disestablished | c. 3rd century CE | ||||||||
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In the 3rd century CE, after defeating Tun Sun to control the trans-Kra Isthmus trade route and encircle Chin Lin,[1]: 20, 25 [2]: 258 king Fan Man of Funan attempted to seize Chin Lin,[1]: 20 but failed due to his illness.[3]: 258 [2]: 269
Location
editThe location of Chin Lin remains unclear. It was first mentioned around 9 – 22 CE during the late Western Han period, a Chinese emperor Wang Mang sent an embassy to visit Chin-lin. Later in the 3rd century, Chin Lin was again mentioned in the account of Funan king Fan Shih-man's conquests in the Chinese text Liáng Shū, which states that Chin Lin was located 3,000 li north of the kingdoms of Ta-k'un (Ch'ü-tu-k'un) and Chü-li (Chiu-chih),[2]: 258 speculated to be Kou-chih of Kole polis in present-day near Kuantan of Malaysia.[1]: 26–27 Palmer Briggs proposes that Chin-lin and its southern neighbor, Tun Sun, was the Mon countries. The boundary between this two entities was ill-defined, but probably not far above the present-Mergui-Tanintharyi Region.[2]: 259
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Paul Wheatley (1956). "Tun-Sun (頓 遜)". The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1/2). Cambridge University Press: 17–30. JSTOR 25222785. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024.
- ^ a b c d Lawrence Palmer Briggs (1950). "The Khmer Empire and the Malay Peninsula". The Far Eastern Quarterly. 9 (3). Duke University Press: 256–305. doi:10.2307/2049556. JSTOR 2049556. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024.
- ^ Gustaaf Schlegel (1899). "Geographical Notes. VII. Tun-Sun 頓遜 or Tian-Sun 典遜 Tĕnasserim or Tānah-Sāri". T'oung Pao. 10 (1). Brill Publishers: 33–38. JSTOR 4525378. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024.
