507 AH
Approximate date
King Suryavarman II builds Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument on earth, as a temple-mountain for the Hindu god Vishnu.
How it touches Islam The neighbouring Cham people later embraced Islam, and their descendants are Cambodia's Muslims today.
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