Haus Sisowath

Das Haus Sisowath (Khmer រាជវង្សស៊ីសុវត្ថិ, auch Sisovat, oder Si Suvata) ist eines von zwei Königshäusern vom Kambodscha. Das zweite Königshaus ist die Familie der Norodom. Der Name des Hauses geht auf den König Sisowath I. zurück.

1. ↑ Milton Osborne: King Making in Cambodia. From Sisowath to Sihanouk. In: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. Band 4, Nr. 2, September 1973, S. 169.
2. ↑ Britannica Sisowath, also spelled Sisovat, or Si Suvata, (born Sept. 7, 1840, Bătdâmbâng province, Cambodia—died 1927, Phnom Penh), king of Cambodia from 1904 until his death. He was a figurehead for the French colonial administration, which had secured the protectorate over Cambodia in a treaty signed by Sisowath’s half-brother Norodom in 1863.