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						A full-scale model of 
						 
						
						
						Phrathat Sri Song Rak 
						in   
 Loei 
						
						
						Province (fig.), 
						a 
						distinctive 
						
						stupa 
						in Laotian style, which 
						was 
						built between 
						
						1560 and 
						1563 AD 
						to commemorate the long-lasting friendship between the 
						Siamese King  
						Mahachakraphat 
						
						
						of 
						Krung Sri 
						
						Ayutthaya
						and the
						
						Laotian 
						
						King Chaiya Chetthathirath of 
						Krung 
						Sri Sattanah Khonhut (Vientiane), 
						ruler of 
						
						
						Lan Chang
						(Lan 
						Xang). |