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Coordinates | 12°58′0″N77°34′0″N |
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Name | Pakxan |
Settlement type | Town |
Pushpin map | Laos |
Pushpin label position | right |
Pushpin map caption | Location in Laos |
Coordinates display | inline,title |
Coordinates region | LA-BL |
Subdivision type | Country |
Subdivision name | |
Subdivision type1 | Province |
Subdivision name1 | Bolikhamsai Province |
Subdivision type2 | District |
Subdivision name2 | Paksan District |
In 1876, the King of Siam Rama V ordered the creation of the Muong Borikhane [3] with the last survivors of the Ho invasion of 1874. The Muong of Borikhane is placed under the authority of Kha Luang Nong Khai. From 1885, the French who took up the neighboring Vietnam, challenged the sovereignty Siamese Laos, and after the mission of Auguste Pavie dating the Mekong to Luang Prabang, the Siamese are forced to leave the left bank Mekong and evacuate the position they had created at the mouth of the Nam Sane. At that time, Patchoum Muong (or Paxum) is the largest town near the confluence of the Nam Sane, but it is located on the Nam Sane, a half-day canoe Mekong [2].
In the course of the 1890s, missionaries of the Missions étrangères de Paris, attached to the mission of Christianity to a Bangkok based Keng-Sadok, on the Mekong River, a few miles from the mouth of the Nam Sane. Then the missionaries resumed foot Paksane abandoned by the Siamese and there built a church [2] [4]. In 1911, the Muong Borikhane has about 61 villages housing a population of about 4000 inhabitants. Paksane has a thousand people in 1937. In 1937, Vientiane province is cut in half. Paksane is the capital of the new province or "Khueng" After the split, which still retains its old name, which Khueng Borikhane devendra Borikhamsaï from 1980 [
Category:Populated places in Bolikhamsai Province Category:Populated places on the Mekong River Category:Laos–Thailand border crossings
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