Prey Nokor

English Etymology From en km ព្រៃនគរ. Proper noun 1 en historical en Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon before its annexation by the Vietnamese in the 17th century. en https://archive.org/details/landpeopleofcamb00chan/mode 1991 The Land and People of Cambodia David P. Chandler HarperCollins Publisher 9780060211301 90 https://archive.org/details/landpeopleofcamb00chan/page/90 In exchange for these alliances, the Vietnamese rulers of the south, the Nguyen clan, obtained administrative control over many of these areas. The sleepy Cambodian port of Prey Nokor (Forest City) at the mouth of the Mekong was taken over in this way in the 1620’s and renamed Saigon (it is now known as Ho Chi Minh City, and houses several million people). Translations historical Khmer city Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 牌諾 Khmer: km ព្រៃនគរ Korean: ko 프레이 노코르 peurei nokoreu Ho Chi Minh City Saigon en Cities in Cambodia Cities in Vietnam