Thonburi Kingdom
The Thonburi Kingdom () was a short-lived major Siamese kingdom which existed in Southeast Asia from 1767 to 1782, centered around the city of Thonburi, in Siam, or present-day Thailand. The kingdom was founded by Taksin, who reunited Siam following the collapse of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, which saw the country separate into five separate states along with small-scale Burmese occupation of the country. The Thonburi Kingdom oversaw the resumption of Siamese military conflicts with its major regional rival, Burma, leading to the creation of a martial-dominated Siamese state and the reestablishment of Siam as a major regional military power, with Siam expanding to its greatest territorial extent to that point in its history, which saw the incorporation of Lan Na, the Laotian kingdoms (Luang Prabang, Vientiane, Champasak), the northern Malay states, and Cambodia incorporated under the Siamese sphere of influence.