Talk:Pailin province

Some references needed
I think this article could use a few references where indicated. I believe what has been written, but some references would sure make this article better. I added some information about the current tribunals against the Khmer Rouge leaders. Mvblair 12:48, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Kola
There is an extensive discussion of the Kola Burmese in the cultural section. The only reference I can find to the Kola people on the internet is from the Cambodian Cultural Village where they give an example of a Kola village and explain that they arrived from Burma begining in the late 1800s and live in the Pailin region, as well as a discussion of Kola on a Khmer-American message board where the participants aren't sure who the Kola are. My wife and her family is from Pailin and they are Shan Burmese. From discussions with my wife I think the term Kola may just be what the Cambodians call the Shan. From her recollection the main Pailin ethnic groups were the Khmer, the Shan and the Chinese before the war. According to a discussion on the khmer message board the Kola are taller and fairer skinned than the Khmer, which fits the Shan. The pictures of Kola dress and architecture also match the Shan. What is discussed as two different ethnic groups on this page is likely one ethnic group that arrived in two waves and share the same culture and language. If anyone can clarify this, that would be great and would make the page much less confusing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.197.162.208 (talk) 07:21, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Please refer to Five Years in Siam by H. Warington Smyth, 1898 for information on Pailin and Gula (Kola).

--108.18.215.178 (talk) 20:01, 22 July 2015 (UTC) Angpun Chaphiv (pchaphiv@hotmail.com)

Removed unreferenced text
I removed this for somebody to possibly source and rewrite if it's true: Pailin was originally a small forest zone full of animal and several precious stones. Pailin is the transform word from the original Pan Len (Khmer:ភេលេង), referred by a tale about around the 18th or 19th century, there were a group of hunters who chased the wild animals farther and farther until they reached the present-day Pailin where, then, was of jungles of high trees and some fields by the canal which was called small river such as Tong small river. The hunters saw otters that were swimming and they ran away when they saw people. Then, the hunters went to see the place where the otters played together. They saw small bright rocks and everybody took a rock to show their friends and their relatives in their home land. Arriving in the home land, there were residents (it was said they were Kula people in Chanthaburi Province Siam) knew that the rocks were valuable so they took and broke the rocks to polish into gems with good purity. That was why they went to buy gems from the hunters. The hunters knew that it was way of earning a living, they often tried to go to take the rocks from the old place. At that time, Pailin began to faced as the business place.

The frequent going and coming from that place made them call Phee Leng (Khmer:ភេលេង) due to the playing of the otters that they saw at the first time. But the residents in Siam pronounced Phee as Phai(Khmer:ផេ) and Leng as Len (Khmer:ឡេន) or Lin with their Siamese sound as Pea Lean (Khmer:ផេឡេន). During the control of France of that area, it was written in Latin with the sound and morphology of the words as Phailin. Later the word was shortened as Pailin by omitting " H "ាaim of a difficult pronunciation. --William Thweatt TalkContribs 07:15, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Size
Hi! According to Cambodiainvestment the Province size is 1,062 km2. I measured it with google measurement tool and it came up with 1,110.07 km². Wikirictor (talk) 03:40, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
 * There is plenty of copied stuff in the article - a lot of work to be done. Wikirictor (talk) 04:48, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

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