Trat ( Thai : ตราด , pronounced [tràːt] ), also spelt Trad , is a town in Thailand , capital of Trat province and the Mueang Trat district . The town is in the east of Thailand, at the mouth of the Trat River , near the border with Cambodia .
7-564: Trat is believed to derive from Krat ( กราด ), the Thai name for the tree Dipterocarpus intricatus , common to the region and used to make brooms. It is also spelt Trad . Trat was already an important seaport in the Kingdom of Ayutthaya . Under King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), Trat and Chanthaburi province were briefly occupied by the French . In a complicated exchange of territory, Trat (and Chanthaburi)
14-568: Is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae found in Thailand , Cambodia , Laos and Vietnam . The tree, itself deciduous, is found in dense deciduous forests and clear forests. It is often met in pure stands in deciduous, periodically flooded lowland forests, but can also be found in dense forest at up to 1300m altitude. In Thailand it sometimes occurs growing gregariously with D. obtusifolious , D. tuberculatus , Shorea robusta and S. siamensis , sometimes in pure stands forming
21-492: Is processed right in the town. Fruit growing is also important: durian , rambutan and mangosteen are the main products. For tourists, Trat is more interesting as a starting point to the large islands of Ko Chang and Ko Mak . The city of Trat had 10,207 inhabitants as of 2012. Dipterocarpus intricatus Dipterocarpus intricatus ( Khmer : tra:ch (ត្រាច), tra:ch sa (ត្រាចស), tra:ch snaèng (ត្រាចស្នែង), tra:ch sra: (ត្រាចស្រា) , Thai : ยางกราด ( yang-krat ) )
28-604: The climatic dry deciduous dipterocarp forest. This forest type covered a large area of eastern, north-eastern and northern Thailand, from peneplain at 150-300m elevations to slope and ridges up to 1300m above sea level. It does also occur in Lowland dipterocarp forest (0-350m) in Thailand. In Vietnam, it is described as common in dry forests. The tree prefers poor, sandy and lateritic soils derived from granitic and sandstone formations. Seedlings develop hardy rootstock and thick rough bark on
35-506: The extreme southeast of Thailand near the border with Cambodia . It is just over 300 km from the capital Bangkok . Trat experiences a tropical monsoon climate , with the dry season taking place from November to April and the wet season lasting from May to October. Trat, favored by its proximity to the Cambodian border, is of some importance as a trading city. The area around Trat is rich in gemstone mines, whose yield (rubies and sapphires)
42-719: The stout stem, affording fire-protection in the ground-fire prone early hot dry season. Coppicing occurs freely up to a moderate size. In Thailand leaves are shed from November, defoliation is complete by February, with leaf starting at this time, or sometimes a little before. Flowering occurs from February to April, fruiting from April to May, though in certain areas or some years with a late rainy season these periods start up to 3 months earlier. The species grows from 15 to 30m tall. The fruit has 2 prominent, elongated, netted wings, 6–8 cm long x 1.5–2 cm wide, on top of an ovoid or ellipsoid fruit-body, 1.5–2 cm long x 1-1.5 cm wide, with undulate ribs, 2-3mm wide. In Cambodia
49-591: Was returned on March 23, 1906, but Thailand relinquished the area around Siem Reap and Sisophon in present-day Cambodia. When the Vietnamese pushed the Khmer Rouge out of Cambodia in 1985, Pol Pot fled to Thailand and made his headquarters in a plantation villa near Trat. It was built for him by the Thai Army and nicknamed "Office 87". Trat Province is located in the eastern part of the central region of Thailand, in
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