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Name: Maw

Type: Polity

Start: 1701 AD

End: 1885 AD

Nation: maw

Parent: burma

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Was a Shan State and a vassal of Burma in modern-day Eastern Burma.

Establishment

  • January 1701: Maung Kya O becomes the first king of the chiefdom of Maw.

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    Disestablishment

  • January 1886: The Shan States and Karenni States became princely states of the British Empire after the defeat of Burma in the Anglo-Burmese Wars.

    • Selected Sources

  • Yawnghwe, C.T. (2010): The Shan of Burma: Memoirs of a Shan Exile, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, pp. 68-76

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