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    Daw Talut to be the new governor of Martaban. The Burmese armies gathered in Martaban in December 1759. At Martaban, instead of taking the usual route...
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    Macchagiri (present-day Kyaukpyu District) in the west, and Martaban (Mottama) in the south. The Martaban rebellion was easily put down but Macchagiri required...
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  • across the newly founded kingdom from Ava (Inwa) and Toungoo (Taungoo) to Martaban (Mottama) and Chiang Mai. The king suddenly died less than a year after...
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    the daughter of the king. He established himself as king of the Mon in Martaban (present-day Mottama), and later moved the capital to Pegu. His Hanthawaddy...
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    senator's son belonged to the ordo senatorius, but he had to qualify on his own merits for admission to the Senate. A senator could be removed for violating moral...
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    Buddhist Kingdom in Central Thailand (PDF). Pamela Gutman (2002). "The Martaban Trade: An Examination of the Literature from the Seventh Century until...
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    Ayutthaya fought to acquire the cities of Tavoy, Mergui, Tenasserim, and Martaban in the late 15th century. Song China's increasing interests to sea commerce...
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    royal chronicles dates only to 1362/63 CE (724 ME) when King Binnya U of Martaban–Hanthawaddy raised the pagoda to 18 m (59 ft). Contemporary inscriptional...
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  • Henderson & Co, launched 11 October 1934, completed 22 November 1934. SS Martaban, cargo ship for P Henderson & Co, launched 8 November 1934, completed 26...
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    influx of Mon people in 1774 in Thonburi period. In 1814, Mon people of Martaban rose up against an oppressive Burmese governor and the 40,000 of Mon people...
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    Head Washing Island), a small rocky outcrop of an island in the Gulf of Martaban near Mawlamyine. Nightfall brings music, song and dance, and merrymaking...
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    elected to "royal office" based on "outstanding achievements" and "special merit". Aristotle also praises Carthage's political system for its "balanced"...
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    donor activity during this period: "the religious merit that accrued from endowing an individual merit was more widely accessible", and more private individuals...
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    transported through the Three Pagodas Pass, eventually reaching Martaban. From Martaban, Siamese captives and treasures were transported further to Ava...
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    Thor Heyerdahl (category Grand Officers of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic)
    1970; Commander: 1951) Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Peru (1953) Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (21 June 1965) Knight in...
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    (site of much of Southern Song official celadon ware) Vietnamese ceramics Martaban (Chinese stoneware highly valued in the precolonial maritime trade of island...
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    ordered troops to be gathered in Burmese Chiang Mai and the Mon town of Martaban in order to invade Siam from both the north and the west in two directions:...
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    in 1759, a group of Mon people from Martaban, possibly due to the Burmese king Alaungpaya's marching upon Martaban in December 1759, fled to take refuge...
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