The Khmer empire was the largest Empire of South East Asia based in what is now Cambodia. Its greatest legacy is Angkor, which was the capital during the empire's zenith. Angkor bears testimony to the Khmer empire's immense power and wealth, as well as the variety of belief systems that it patronised over time. The history of Angkor as the central area of settlement of the historical kingdom of Kambuja is also the history of the Khmer from the 9th to the 15th centuries. From Kambuja itself - and so also from the Angkor region - no written records have survived other than stone inscriptions.

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