Chin Lin or Kim Lin ( zh, 金鄰/金邻; ; ) was an ancient

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in modern lower

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exited from the 9 CE to the 3rd century. In the 3rd century CE, after defeating Tun Sun to control the trans-

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trade route and encircle Chin Lin, king Fan Man of

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attempted to seize Chin Lin, but failed due to his illness. The city "''Balangka'', an inland town" (), mentioned in the ''Geographike Hyphegesis'' of

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in the 2nd century, has been assumed by Thai scholars to have been

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, the center of Chin Lin.

Location

The location of Chin Lin remains unclear. It was first mentioned around 9 – 22 CE during the late

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period, a Chinese emperor

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sent an embassy to visit Chin-lin. Later in the 3rd century, Chin Lin was again mentioned in the account of

king ''Fan Shih-mans conquests in the Chinese text '' Liáng Shū'', which states that Chin Lin was located 3,000 li north of the kingdoms of Ta-k'un (Ch'ü-tu-k'un) and Chü-li (Chiu-chih), speculated to be ''Kou-chih'' of Kole polis in present-day near

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of Malaysia. Palmer Briggs proposes that Chin-lin and its southern neighbor, Tun Sun, was the

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countries. The boundary between this two entities was ill-defined, but probably not far above the present-

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