Siem Reap is the capital city of the province with the same name in Cambodia. The defeat means City name Siam (now Thailand) and refers to a massacre of a century ago is celebrated by basorieliefuri monuments today. Siem Reap was only a village when the
French arrived in the region of Angkor in the 19th century.
After Angkor's takeover by the French in 1907, the city began to grow, having already received the first wave of tourists. Hotel Grand Hotel d'Angkor opened its doors in 1929, and the temples of Angkor remained a major tourist attraction until the late 1960s.
