Country, circuit or people · Self-governing peoples of Mainland Southeast Asia · as at first light, 1 January 1200

The hills of Loei and Phetchabun: forest between the Pa Sak and the Mekong

The broken range between the Chao Phraya plain and the Mekong, with the upper Pa Sak and the Loei valley, is forest and hill country.

It lies between Si Thep and Lavo on the south-west and the Chi and Nong Han country on the south-east. No source we read gives it a chief, a tribute or a town for 1200. The map needs the ground to belong to someone, and it belongs to its own hill villages.

Who holds it

Title
Headmen of the hill villages (no name known)
Since
not known
Born
not known
Family
not known
Confidence
low

No source we read names a people or a ruler for the Loei and Phetchabun hills in 1200; the ground is entered by geography.

Overlord

None attested.

What it holds

  • Forest, swidden fields and hill villages

How things stand that morning

Unrecorded.

Places of note

  • Loei: Modern town in the Loei valley.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Geography only.

On the map: Entered by geography; no source.

Sources and studies

  1. OMNIA board notes for the Khmer and Lao area (a lead, not a source)

Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.