The History of Phuket

Phuket History

The first records in Phuket history create in the starting of the 11th century. As far as historians have been able to trace, the first inhabitants of what is now known as Phuket were the sea gypsy's and the Negrito's.

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Phuket Negritos

The Negritos are determined by historians to be the indigenous inhabitants of South East Asia. The Negritos include tribes from the Malay Peninsula, Andaman tribes, Pilipino tribes and the Semang tribes. The Negritos were small people and were pygmy sized. They are in fact determined to be among the smallest races when seeing at people size. Genetic scholar reconsider the Dna of the Negritos to be among the purest of any human race.

Junk Ceylon

Junk Ceylon was the first name of Phuket in its history. Historians have found the original name of Phuket on the maps of Portuguese sea merchant maps. There was an earlier mention of Junk Ceylon in a book written in the year of 157 Ad. The book was written by a well known Greek philosopher. Cladius Ptolemy.

The Greek philosopher mentioned that if one was to tour to the Malaysian peninsula, one would have to pass a cape which he called the Junk Ceylon. The Junk Ceylon was given a location in the middle of the latitudes of 6 N and 8 N which would be the position of gift day Phuket. It seems that the Junk Ceylon was visited by sea merchant from discrete countries as the bay of Junk Ceylon offered a superb safety against the soldiery of nature and gave the merchants an opportunity to rest and restock.

Recent Phuket History

Phuket come to be later known as Thalang after the city which still exists in the northern region of Phuket. An prominent part of Phuket history was during the 15th century when Phuket obtained the prestige as a prominent tin mining producer. Due to the local mining industry, Phuket come to be somewhat of a trading hub.

Due to the large volume of European merchants and traders that were calling port in Thalang, the Thai King during that period decided that Phuket should be administered by a European. in the middle of the period of 1681 and 1685, Thalang was administered by a French missionary named Renee Charbonneau.

Burmese Invasion

Another prominent event in Phuket history was in 1785 when enemy soldiery from neighboring Burma attempted to invade and rule Phuket. Two Phuket ladies decided to stand up and defend the Island in the name of the King of Thailand. The old governor's widow, Chan, and her loyal sister Muk organized a defense which lasted nearly a month.

The Burmese soldiery were left with no supplies after they had been unable to get past the defence for over a month. The aggresors had no other choice but to withdraw as their suplies had run. The king of Thailand heard of the heroic actions of the two sisters and bestowed upon them the noble titles of Thao Thep Krasattri and Thao Si Sunthon. Even in gift day Phuket, the two sisters have not been forgotten and are in fact still honored and respected. In 1966 the two sisters were honored by their very own sculpture which stands at the Tha Ruea Intersection.

Read other description on Phuket history in the Phuket guide: all-phuket.com/phuket_history.html

The History of Phuket

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