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The Cambodian People's Party (CPP) [a] is a Cambodian political party which has ruled the country since 1979. Founded in 1951, it was originally known as the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP). [b] During the Cold War it allied itself with Vietnam and the Soviet Union, in contrast to the pro-Chinese Communist Party of Kampuchea led ...
Old Khmer is the oldest attested stage of the Khmer language, an Austroasiatic language historically and presently spoken across Cambodia, Southern Vietnam, and parts of Thailand and Laos. It is recorded in inscriptions dating from the early 7th century until the first few decades of the 15th century.
The Kuy (Khmer: កួយ, Thai: กูย) are an indigenous ethnic group of mainland Southeast Asia.The native lands of the Kuy range from the southern Khorat Plateau in northeast Thailand east to the banks of the Mekong River in southern Laos and south to north central Cambodia. [4]
Chinese Cambodians (or Sino-Khmers) are Cambodian citizens of Chinese ancestry or Chinese of full or partial Khmer ancestry. The Khmer term Khmer Kat Chen ...
Khmer people, the ethnic group to which the great majority of Cambodians belong Khmer Americans, Americans of Khmer (Cambodian) ancestry; Khmer Krom, Khmer people living in the Mekong Delta and Southeast Vietnam; Khmer Loeu, the Mon-Khmer highland tribes in Cambodia; Northern Khmer people, ethnic Khmer people of Northeast Thailand
The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, on 17 April 1975, and immediately ordered all the residents to evacuate the city.Between 2 and 3 million residents of Phnom Penh, Battambang, and other large towns were forced by the Communists to walk into the countryside without organized provision for food, water, shelter, physical security, or medical care. [4]
The Hmong people (RPA: Hmoob, ... the Hmong–Mien languages are descended from a population that is distantly related to those who now speak the Mon-Khmer languages ...
