Definitions
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- proper noun Former name for
Cambodia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a nation in southeastern Asia; was part of Indochina under French rule until 1946
Etymologies
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Examples
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The very word Kampuchea brings fear to many Vietnamese, whose memory of the 1978 Khmer Rouge massacres at the border village of Ba Chuc remains fresh.
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Dahomey is the same as Benin in the previous line name changed in 1975, before Cambodia was called Kampuchea
Archive 2006-08-01 Sun Bin 2006
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Dahomey is the same as Benin in the previous line name changed in 1975, before Cambodia was called Kampuchea
Video map: Yakko's world! Sun Bin 2006
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Krom people in Kampuchea organize a Buddhist ceremony annually to commemorate and grieve the loss of Khmer land called Kampuchea Krom, which France colonizes and transfers to Vietnam on
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KKC and Khmer Kampuchea Krom people in Kampuchea organize a Buddhist ceremony annually to commemorate and grieve the loss of Khmer land called Kampuchea Krom, which France colonizes and transfers to Vietnam on June 4, 1949 despite repeated oppositions by the government of
WN.com - Articles related to Growth poses challenge to Asia 2010
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Changing the country's official English name back to Cambodia (which has been used by the US State Department all along) was intended as a symbolic move to distance the present government in Phnom Penh from the bitter connotations of the name Kampuchea, which westerners and overseas Khmer alike associate with the murderous Khmer Rouge regime.
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Until the empire became a French protectorate, known as Kampuchea, in 1863, Khmer kings alternately called on Bangkok or a Vietnamese power to shore up their position against challengers.
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As from today, Democratic Kampuchea, a full-fledged member of the United Nations is called "Kampuchea" in Khmer, "Cambodge" in French and "Cambodia" in English, and no longer "Democratic Kampuchea."
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We recognize the only real and legitimate government of Kampuchea which is comprised of the Revolutionary People's Council of the People's Republic of Kampuchea,
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But there are countries such as Kampuchea, where a horrible and monstrous policy of genocide was conducted which resulted in the death of millions of persons.
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