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Phuket History

Though a small island, which normally goes unconsidered with reference to the historical facts, Phuket has been long known in the times by different names for sure.

Geologists believe that there was a time when Phuket was a part of a mainland in the term of a cape but natural forces detached it of the mainland some million of years ago as a result of continuous erosion.

With the presence on the world map by the name of Junk Ceylon in Ptolemy's literature, an Alexandrian geographer, Phuket as a name is believed to originate from the Tamil Manikram or Crystal Mountain.

Thus there are a lot of variations in terms of names with respect to Phuket.

The reason of awareness for Phuket is mainly due to the fact that it was a kind of a shelter as it served as a cape for people traveling from Suwannapum to the Malay Peninsula.

It was the major stoppage for the sailors routed from China to India. The island had been a part of the Shivite Empire that established itself on the Malay Peninsula during the first millennium period. Governed as the eleventh in a constellation of twelve cities, Phuket's emblem, by which it was known to others in those largely pre-literate times, was the dog. More...