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Wikipedia's article on Funan, community-edited. Reliable for the standard account, drawn from Chinese envoy records, of the Mekong Delta kingdom's establishment around the first century CE and its documented Indianization, including the fifth-century ruler Kaundinya II, who is recorded as having changed all the kingdom's laws to conform to Indian, meaning Hindu, custom; not the right source for a settled single founding date, since the article itself notes archaeological evidence for continuous settlement in the region reaching back to the fourth century BCE, well before any documented Hindu influence.
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the Chinese-recorded first century CE founding and the documented fifth century Indianization under Kaundinya II; the deeper, pre-Hindu archaeological settlement is named as a separate fact rather than conflated with the religious event. NotesUsed for Hinduism's arrival and Indianization of the Funan kingdom in Cambodia.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funan
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (22 claims)
This source backs 22 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 3 holds, 1 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Spread Events, 8 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
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