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    The Sittaung River (Burmese: စစ်တောင်းမြစ် [sɪʔ táʊɰ̃ mjɪʔ]; formerly, the Sittang or Sittoung) is a river in south central Myanmar in Bago Division. The...
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  • Region, Myanmar Sittaung Bridge (Moppalin), a bridge over the Sittaung river in Mon State, Myanmar Sittaung River, a river in Myanmar Sittaung Temple or Shite-thaung...
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    flowed south from Mandalay, discharging its water through the present Sittaung River to the Gulf of Martaban, and that its present westward course is geologically...
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    up with the Siamese army near the Sittaung River, but was driven away when Naresuan shot a musket across the river and killed their commander Suragamma...
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    deeply excavated by many rivers and today forms the basin for major rivers like the Irrawaddy, Chindwin and Sittaung Rivers. The Bago Yoma (Pegu Range)...
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    of low mountains or hills and uplands between the Irrawaddy and the Sittaung River in central Burma (Myanmar). The range runs from Mount Popa in the north...
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  • Myitmaka River Bago River (Pegu River) Sittaung River Phyu Creek Kha Paung Creek Sinthay River Paunglaung River Salween River (Thanlwin River) Ataran River Zami...
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    aimed to defend the Irrawaddy River valley; meanwhile, the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma protected the Sittaung River valley to the east. After Japanese...
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    railway also runs through Phyu Township. Phyu is surrounded by the Sittaung River to the east and Bago Yoma to the west. Phyu Stream passes through the...
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    910 m). The rest of Taungoo forms the upper portion of the valley of the Sittaung River. Taungoo has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification...
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    Troops of the 17th Indian Infantry Division tried to retreat over the Sittaung River, but Japanese parties reached the vital bridge before they did. On 22...
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  • can reach the Sittaung River. King Naresuan uses the strategy of a fighting retreat. His forces built a wooden bridge across the river and engage the...
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    total thilashin community. Bordering Bago Division in the south of Sittaung River Mouth, Kayin State in the east, Thailand and Taninthayi Division in...
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    overlordship in the Burmese-Siamese War of 1584–1593. After the Battle of the Sittaung River, Naresuan forcibly relocated people from the northern cities of Phitsanulok...
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    (comprising Mon State, Kayin State, and Tanintharyi Region), from the Sittaung River in the north to Myeik (Mergui) and Kawthaung in the south, remains a...
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    The Sittaung Bridge at Moppalin (Burmese: စစ်တောင်းတံတား (မုပ္ပလင်)) is a steel bridge spanning the Sittaung river between Waw, Bago Region and Moppalin...
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    Tidal bore (category River surfing)
    Ganges–Brahmaputra, India and Bangladesh Indus River, India and Pakistan Sittaung River, Burma Qiantang River, China, which has the world's largest bore,...
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    shares most of its fish species with the nearby Irrawaddy and Sittaung Rivers. The river also hosts a number of invasive exotic fish which were introduced...
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    founded the First Taungoo Dynasty (1485–1569) at Taungoo far up the Sittaung River south of Inwa towards the end of the Ava Kingdom in 1510. After the...
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    and insubordination. In February 1942, while retreating across the Sittaung River, the main British force left two brigades on the wrong side after prematurely...
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    "Hill's Spur") because of its location by the hills in the narrow Sittaung river valley between the Bago Yoma range and southern Shan Hills. The narrow...
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    predominantly live at the confluence of the Irrawaddy, Salween, and Sittaung River valleys in the centre of the country, which roughly encompass the country's...
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    Tharrawaddy are located to the north and west of Bago District, respectively. Sittaung River runs through the district and empties into the Gulf of Martaban, which...
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  • and Thailand, known from Sittaung River, Salween River and Manipur River and possibly Irrawaddy River. Inhabiting large rivers and tributaries, it is consumed...
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    King Thammaracha II to yield to this new power. After the Battle of Sittaung River in 1583, King Naresuan of Phitsanulok (and crown prince of Ayutthaya)...
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  • Magadauk. Shwegyin and Madawk are only 2.5 miles (4.0 km) apart, but the Sittaung River separates the two towns. Nyaunglebin and Madauk are connected by a 11...
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    nesting colony was finally discovered in 1877 at Shwaygheen on the Sittaung River, Pegu, Burma. It was believed that the Indian birds bred there. This...
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  • a break-out attempt by a battalion surrounded by Japanese troops in Sittaung River, Burma. More than 170 British Commonwealth lives were lost due to RAF...
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    been bypassed by the Allied advances attempted to break out across the Sittaung River during June and July to rejoin the Burma Area Army, which had regrouped...
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    Valley State Railway, opened a 267-kilometre (166 mi) line along the Sittaung River from Yangon to the town of Toungoo (Taungoo) via Pegu (Bago). After...
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