Chen Li Fu

Chên Li Fu (Chinese: 真里富) was a political entity located on the north shore of the Gulf of Siam, west of Chenla.

[1]: 20  The area encompassed the western Chao Phraya Basin and present-day Phetchaburi province of Thailand,[1]: 12  bordering Po-Ssu-lan to the southeast and Tambralinga to the south.

[1]: 20 O. W. Wolters suggests Chên Li Fu was potentially located on the east coast of the Gulf of Siam in Chanthabun area or in the Mae Klong Valley or both.

[1]: 13  Wolters contended this identification since the location of Chanthabun is sufficiently close to Angkor to make it unlikely that the Khmers lost control of it at that time.

[3]: 300, 302, 306–307  Nevertheless, Paul Wheatley posited that the site in question was the city-state of Chin Lin, the kingdom King Fan Man of Funan endeavored to annex during the 4th century.

The Sung Hui Yao Kao says it is located in the southwestern corner, bordered by Po-Ssu-lan to the southeast and Teng-liu-mei (登流眉, Tambralinga) to the southwest.

[1]: 9 In the early 13th century, the Chinese Sung court was no longer receiving envoys from Southeast Asian kingdoms and was discouraging them and their trading.

[1]: 6  On 23 September 1200, 20 years after his establishment of 立, the King of Chên Li Fu named Mo-lo-pa-kan-wu-ting-ên-ssŭ-li-fang-hui-chih (Kamrateng Sri Fang-hui-chih) sent senior palace officials to present a memorial for the Chinese court.

[5] O. W. Wolters suggests Chên Li Fu was potentially an independent polity in the 13th century,[1]: 13  which is consistent with the contemporary Pali chronicle Yonok [th] says Khmer influences have waned from the Menam Valley since 1052 when it lost control over Lavapura of the Lavo Kingdom to Suphannabhum princes from Haripuñjaya.

[1]: 2 Its resources are ivory, rhinoceros horn, local beeswax, lakawood, foreign oil, coarse perfumes, cardamons, and ebony wood.

In the 16th century Tomé Pires, writing about Ayutthaya, regarded the population of 'Siam' as similar to that of Pegu in the Hanthawaddy Kingdom:[1]: 15 The rulers of Chên Li Fu were called by the Chinese Zhǔ (主, lit.