Bago, previously Pegu, is the historical capital of the Mon humans of Burma. Today Bago is the capital of the Bago Division in present-day Myanmar. Bago is eighty km northeast of Yangon. At the time it was once founded, Bago was once the most important port city, earlier than the river modified its course. This, and the destruction of Bago using a rival Burmese king, sealed Bago\'s downfall.
According to legend, Bago used to be situated by way of two Mon princesses from Thaton in 573 AD. They had considered a woman goose standing on the again of a male goose on an island in a massive lake. Considering that to be an auspicious omen, they constructed a town referred to as Hanthawady (Pali Hamsavati) on the area of the lake.
Arab geographer Ibn Khudadhbin stated this metropolis around 850 AD. By then, the Mon capital had shifted to Thaton. The location got here underneath the rule of the Burmese from Bagan in 1056, with the conquest of Thaton with the aid of King Anawrahta (see the web page on Bagan). The Mon solely regained their independence after Bagan collapsed below the Mongol invasion in 1287. Visit United Airlines Reservations to get cheap flight tickets and extra offers on vacation packages to Bago.
Hanthawady was once the capital of the Mon Kingdom of Ramanadesa from 1369-1539. Ramanadesa included all of what is nowadays Lower Myanmar. The Mon place got here underneath Burman manage once more in 1539 when it used to be annexed via King Tabinshwethi to his Kingdom of Taungoo. The kings of Taungoo made Bago their royal capital from 1539-1599 and once more in 1613-1634, and used it as a base for repeated invasions of Siam.
As a fundamental seaport, Bago used to be regularly visited by way of Europeans. And then, in 1634, the Burmese capital relocated to Ava. In 1740, the Mon revolted and temporarily regained their independence, however, Burmese King Alaungpaya ransacked and definitely destroyed Bago in 1757, and once once more the Mon lost their independence.
King Bodawpaya who reigned from 1782-1819 rebuilt Bago, however using then the river had shifted course, reducing the metropolis off from the sea. With that, Bago declined in importance. After the Second Anglo-Burmese War, the British annexed Bago in 1852. In 1862, the province of British Burma used to be formed, and the capital moved to Yangon.
The title Bago has spelled peh you literally. The tremendous variations between the colloquial and literary pronunciations, as in with Burmese words, was once a motive of the British corruption "Pegu".
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