death_date successor death_place religion title birth_date article_title name reign
835 770 jayavarman iii angkor , khmer empire hinduism '' king of the khmer empire '' ca. 770 jayavarman ii
 jayavarman ii 802 -- 835 xiii ,59
jayavarman ii

jayavarman ii -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- c. 770 -- 835 -rrb- was a 9th-century king of cambodia , widely recognized as the founder of the khmer empire , which ruled much of the southeast asian mainland for more than six hundred years .
historians formerly dated his reign as running from 802 ad to 835 ad .
before jayavarman ii came to power , there was much fighting among local overlords who ruled different parts of cambodia .
the country was not unified under one ruler .
