Quarrels over the possession of a powerful talisman, and image of the Buddha, led to a Burmese invasion in 1558 and Lanna became a vassal state of the King of Pegu, governed by Burmese-appointed rulers. king Naresuan of Ayutthaya, fighting the Burmese who and invaded Siam, expelled these rulers from Lanna in 1598 and for the next 17 years Ayutthaya remained the dominant power in the north.
The old walls of Chiang Mai