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Fortress Island on Chao Phraya River

Posted on December 03, 2009

Samut Prakan was built as a frontier town to protect the approach to Bangkok upriver. Fortresses were built on both sides of the river from the estuary all the way up to Phra Pradaeng. Not many of these forts are around today. They are either in ruins …

Written by: Richard Barrow

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