Bakong

Banteay Meanchey Province · Cambodia

Bakong, Cambodia
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The first great temple-mountain of the Khmer empire, a stepped sandstone pyramid in the Roluos group ringed by a broad moat. Its 9th-century form set the pattern for later Angkorian architecture.

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