thumb|406x406px|Administrative Division of Siam in 1900 Monthon (), also known as Monthon Thesaphiban (; Mṇṯhl Theṣ̄āp̣hibāl; , ), were administrative subdivisions of Thailand at the beginning of the 20th century. The Thai word monthon is a translation of the word mandala ('', literally "circle"), in its sense of a type of political formation. The monthon were created as a part of the Thesaphiban'' (, literally "local government") bureaucratic administrative system, introduced by Prince Damrong Rajanubhab which, together with the monthon, established step-by-step today's present provinces (cha
thumb|406x406px|Administrative Division of Siam in 1900 Monthon (), also known as Monthon Thesaphiban (; Mṇṯhl Theṣ̄āp̣hibāl; , ), were administrative subdivisions of Thailand at the beginning of the 20th century. The Thai word monthon is a translation of the word mandala ('', literally "circle"), in its sense of a type of political formation. The monthon were created as a part of the Thesaphiban'' (, literally "local government") bureaucratic administrative system, introduced by Prince Damrong Rajanubhab which, together with the monthon, established step-by-step today's present provinces (changwat), districts (amphoe), and communes (tambon) throughout Thailand. Each monthon was led by a royal commissioner called Thesaphiban (เทศาภิบาล), later renamed to Samuhathesaphiban (สมุหเทศาภิบาล). The system was officially adopted by the 1897 Local Administration Act, after some monthon had been established and administrative details were sorted out.
== History ==
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).