History Today Jump to Navigation Thursday, 15 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Siam Becomes Thailand By Richard Cavendish Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6 2014 People speaking one of the Tai group of languages settled in what is now Thailand around 1,000 years ago. The name Siam came from a Sanskrit word, syam . It was adopted by the Portuguese from the 16th century...
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