| Kyawkku Hsiwan | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State of the Shan States | |||||||||
| c. 1600–1922 | |||||||||
 Kyawkku State in a map of the Shan States | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| 243 km2 (94 sq mi) | |||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
| 4771 | |||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Kyawkku Hsiwan state founded | c. 1600 | ||||||||
• Merged with Poila State | 1922 | ||||||||
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Kyawkku (also known as Kyawkku Hsiwan or Kyakku) was a Shan state in the Myelat region of what is today Burma. Its capital was the village of Kyawkku (Myinkyado) which had 344 inhabitants in 1901.
Kyawkku was founded around 1600 CE. It was a tributary of Burma until 1887, when the Shan states submitted to British rule after the fall of the Konbaung dynasty. The state was merged with Poila in 1922. [1]
The title of Kyawkku's rulers was Ngwegunhmu. [2]
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Loi-ai was a Shan state in the Myelat region of what is today Burma. It was one of the westernmost Shan states, bordering with Yamethin district of Upper Burma. The capital was Lonpo (Aungpan) and the population was mostly Pa-O, but there were also Danu, Shan and Karen people in the area.
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