Hsawnghsup

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Hsawnghsup
State of the Shan States
1757–1959
Map of Toungoo Kingdom 1572.jpg
Hsawnghsup (Thaungdut) in a map of the Toungoo Kingdom
Capital Thaungdut
Area 
 1901
932 km2 (360 sq mi)
Population 
 1901
7,471
History 
 State founded
1757
 Abdication of the last Saopha
1959
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Blank.png Kingdom of Burma
Shan State Flag of Shan State.svg

Hsawnghsup was one of the outlying Shan princely states in what is today Burma.

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The village of Thaungdut (Hsawnghsup) was formerly the residence of the Sawbwa of Hsawnghsup State. [1]

Hsawnghsup formed an exclave located to the northwest of the Shan States, within the Upper Chindwin District of British Burma and bound to the west by the princely state of Manipur. Most of the territory of the state was dense forest. [1] In 1886 the ruler of Hsawnghsup remained loyal to the British during the rebellion of the prince of Wuntho. [2]

Rulers

The rulers of Hsawnghsup bore the title of Saopha . [3]

Saophas

At the same time, in the centre of the city, the Seik-pyu Shinbin pagoda, with a wailed enclosure and eight surrounding shrines, was built. Four rahan had been sent from the Pagan country, and for them four monasteries were built, the Ôk-kyaung taik, the Bawdi-kyaung taik, the Min-kyaung taik, and the Zetawun- Kyaung taik, which were all dedicated on the same day. The town was then called Thaungthut, because ten thousand troops had been employed on clearing the site of it. [4]

Toungoo period

Colonized of Bayinnaung

He betrayed King Nanda Bayin of Hanthawaddy to joint with Hso Hsu Hpa, the saopha of Sanda in Koshanpye they seized later and send to Hanthawaddy the Burmese King decided to execution them but remit later

He guided King Khagemba of Ningthouja to develop friendly relationships with King Anaukpetlun the King of Burma until the Manipur King give her daughter Champajulee to married with Burmese King

He guided Taninganway of Inwa to develop friendly relationships with Ningthouja dynasty of Manipur until the Burmese King married with princess Chakpa Makhao Ngambi the younger sister of Pamhaiba (She was the daughter of Tonsen Ngampa or King Chalailongba aka Pitambar)

The both have son name Min Taya Sinthu Ngamba and daughter name Dimourathi

Alaungpaya period

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References

  1. 1 2 Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 13, p. 217.
  2. The Pacification of Burma, by Sir Charles Haukes Todd Crosthwaite
  3. Ben Cahoon (2000). "World Statesmen.org: Shan and Karenni States of Burma" . Retrieved 7 July 2014.

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