Non Sung (, ; , ) is a district (amphoe) in the central part of Nakhon Ratchasima province, northeastern Thailand.
Etymology The old name of the district was Klang. The word klang in Thai means 'middle', which refers to the location of the district between the Nok District (now Bua Yai District) and Nai District (Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima District).
When Thai people had to choose a family name at the beginning of the 20th century, many of the locals created names with the word klang.
History Ban Non Wat has been settled since the middle of the seventeenth century BC. Sing C. Chew, summarising Charles Higham's excavations, gives the late Neolithic there as ending about 1280 BC, the Bronze Age as running to about 400 BC and the Iron Age to about AD 300. Charles Higham, reporting 75 radiocarbon determinations from Ban Non Wat, places the merging of the final Bronze Age into the early Iron Age there in the 5th century BC. He dates the final Iron Age phase of the upper Mun valley to the 4th and 5th centuries AD. Two of the satellite mounds on which Iron Age salt was boiled lie just west of Noen U-Loke, the second excavated site in the district. Grave goods were at their richest between about 1000 and 800 BC; the wealth then declined, and the site regained its earlier standing only in the early Iron Age, about 200 BC. Lead isotopes in slag and cast metal from the village match ores of the Khao Wong Prachan valley in central Thailand. Copper therefore reached this part of the Khorat Plateau from within mainland Southeast Asia by about 1000 BC.
The district's name was changed from Non Wat to Non Sung in 1939.
Geography Neighbouring districts are (from the north clockwise) Khong, Phimai, Chakkarat, Chaloem Phra Kiat, Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima, Non Thai, and Kham Sakaesaeng.
Ban Non Wat, a village in the district, is an important Bronze Age archaeological site.
Administration The district is divided into 16 sub-districts (tambons). There are seven townships (thesaban tambons) within the district: Non Sung covers tambon Non Sung; Talat Khae covers parts of tambon Than Prasat; Don Wai covers tambon Don Wai; Makha covers tambon Makha; Dan Khla covers tambon Dan Khla; Mai covers tambon Mai; and Ho Kham covers tambon Ho Kham. 1.Non Sungโนนสูง2.Maiใหม่3.Tanotโตนด4.Bingบิง5.Don Chomphuดอนชมพู6.Than Prasatธารปราสาท7.Lum Khaoหลุมข้าว8.Makhaมะค่า9.Phon Songkhramพลสงคราม10.Chan-atจันอัด11.Kham Thaoขามเฒ่า12.Dan Khlaด่านคล้า13.Lam Kho Hongลำคอหงษ์14.Mueang Prasatเมืองปราสาท15.Don Waiดอนหวาย16.Lam Munลำมูล
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External links amphoe.com