Preah Vihear
Temple or Prasat Preah Vihear is a Khmer Temple situated a top Poy Tadi, a
525-metre (1,720 ft) cliff in the Dangrek Mountains in the Preah Vihear
Province of Cambodia. In 1962, following a significant dispute between Thailand
and Cambodia over ownership of the temple, the International Court of Justice
(ICJ) in The Hague ruled that the temple belonged to Cambodia. The temple has
beautiful views all the temple built during the six-century-long Khmer Empire.
On July 7, 2008 the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee decided to add Prasat
Preah Vihear to the World Heritage Site list as Cambodia and Thailand were in
full agreement that the temple had “Outstanding Universal Value” and should be
inscribes on the list.
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