Krabi’s history in brief

Posted by admin on January 7th, 2009 filed in Uncategorized, living here

Krabi is a province in the southern part of Thailand located on the country’s Andaman seaboard and is bestowed with probably the nation’s oldest continued settlement’s history. Due to having found skeletal remains, pottery, beads, ancient coloured drawings and stone tools, it is believed that the province has been the Homo Sapiens home since the era 25,000 – 35,000 B.C. Krabi was known as the ‘Ban Thai Samor’ in recorded history, and was one of twelve communities that, before humans were literate, used the monkey for their standard. In that period, c. 1200 A.D., Krabi was tributary to a city on the eastern shore of the Kra Peninsula, named the Kingdom of Ligor. Today we know this city as Nakhon Si Thammarat.

About two centuries ago, at the beginning of the Rattanakosin period, when the country’s capital finally became Bangkok, by order of Nakhon Si Thammarat’s governor an elephant kraal was founded in Krabi, which then was a part of the Kingdom of Thailand. The governor sent the Phra Palad, his vizier, to oversee this plan, which was aiming to ensure a frequent elephant supply for the bigger town. So many followers emigrated in the Phra Palad’s steps resulting in Krabi soon having a significant community in three various boroughs: Pak Lao, Khlong Pon and Pakasai. King Chulalongkorn in 1872 graciously elevated these three communities to town status, named Krabi.

Luang Thep Sena became Krabi’s first governor, though for a while it remained as one of Nakhon Si Thammarat’s dependencies. This status changed in 1875, when the town was raised to a fourth-level locality in the old political Thai system. That time the administrators had to report directly to Bangkok’s central government, and Krabi’s past as a unique destination separated from Thailand’s other provinces, had started.

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During today’s reign, the merchants, the civil servants’ corps, and the locals of Krabi and the surrounding provinces have in general together organised a royal residence’s construction at Laem Hang Nak Cape for presentation to the King of Thailand. Laem Hang Nak Cape is located on the Andaman coast about 187 miles to the west of Krabi Town.