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    The Pegu Range (Burmese: ပဲခူးရိုးမ; Pegu Yoma or Bago Yoma) is a range of low mountains or hills and uplands between the Irrawaddy and the Sittaung River...
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    Bago, Myanmar (redirect from Pegu)
    dates of Bago, ranging from 573 CE to 1152 CE while the Zabu Kuncha, an early 15th century Burmese administrative treatise, states that Pegu was founded...
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    region of Mandalay about 50 km (31 mi) southeast of Bagan (Pagan) in the Pegu Range. It can be seen from the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) River as far away as 60 km...
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    District are the Arakan Mountains and along the eastern side are the Pegu Range. Pyay District's main towns are Pyay, Shwetaung, and Paungde. The name...
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    Bago River (redirect from Pegu River)
    source of the Bago river comes from many streams in the hills of the Pegu Range with the traditional choice for the source being Sinhnamaung Mountain...
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    Dry Zone being surrounded by the Arakan Mountains to the west and the Pegu Range to the south, as well as the Shan Hills to the east. The Dry Zone is also...
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    or Sittoung) is a river in south central Myanmar in Bago Division. The Pegu Range separates its basin from that of the Irrawaddy. The river originates at...
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    rivers like the Irrawaddy, Chindwin and Sittaung Rivers. The Bago Yoma (Pegu Range) is a prominent but relatively low mountain chain between the Irrawaddy...
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    against villages and insurgents of the Burmese Communist Party in the Pegu Range. Hale, Christopher (2013). Massacre in Malaya: Exposing Britain's My Lai...
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    (Burmese: ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, pronounced [bəɡó táɪɰ̃ dèθa̰ dʑí]; formerly Pegu Division and Bago Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located...
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    Pegu Club was a craft cocktail bar in New York City, operating from 2005 to 2020. It was located on the border of SoHo and Greenwich Village in Manhattan...
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  • Region an administrative region Bago River, a river Bago Yoma or Pegu Range, a mountain range Bago, Negros Occidental, a city Bago, a barangay (administrative...
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    species is only known from type series collected from "near Toungoo" in the Pegu Range. The specific name oatesii honours Eugene W. Oates, English civil servant...
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    (Passer flaveolus), also called the Pegu sparrow or olive-backed sparrow, is a sparrow found in Southeast Asia. Its range spans from Myanmar to central Vietnam...
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    that had been collected by Eugene W. Oates on the western slopes of the Pegu Range of central Myanmar. Hume placed the specimen in the genus Stachyris and...
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  • Arakan Mountains, and on the east the Pegu Range, and the face of the country is otherwise broken by low ranges of hills, many of which have no vegetation...
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  • construction began the section between Pyinmana and Satthwa across the Pegu Range, and the section was opened in 1925. The section from Satthwa to Kyaukpadaung...
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    Yoma montane forests in Chin Hills and Arakan Mountains to the west. The Pegu Range lies to the east, home to subtropical and montane forests. The Myanmar...
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    The Javan or Eastern pipistrelle (Pipistrellus javanicus) is a species of pipistrelle bat found in South and Southeast Asia. The Javan Pipistrelle lives...
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    1,538 m Pethukun, 1,519 m Mount Popa, 1,518 m (highest summit of the Pegu Range) Palan Taung, 1,431 m Taunghawele Taung, 1,421 m Khawhma Taung, 1,409...
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    Toungoo, located in a remote, hard-to-reach corner east of the Pegu Yoma (Bago Yoma) range, had always been a troublesome province for its overlord. During...
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    by Allan Octavian Hume in 1873 from specimens collected in the eastern Pegu Range, Myanmar. Hume coined the current binomial name Hydrornis oatesi. The...
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    effort to establish a sustainable system for logging. Coming mainly from Pegu Range of central Burma, logs would be pulled by elephants to rivers and then...
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    (Bago), ranging from 573 CE to 1152 CE. The Zabu Kuncha, an early 15th century Ava (Upper Burmese) administrative treatise, states that Pegu was founded...
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  • The Pegu kukri snake (Oligodon cruentatus) is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. It is endemic to Myanmar. The snake is found in Myanmar between...
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    cities of Mandalay, Yamethin, Pyinmana, the capital Naypyidaw, Toungoo and Pegu before dropping off into the Gulf of Martaban, running for a total length...
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    the Pegu Yoma (Bago Yoma) range, was an "obvious next target." To be sure, Toungoo did have some advantages. Tucked away behind the Pegu Yoma range, the...
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    the Magway Region of Burma (Myanmar). It is located to the west of the Pegu Range in the foothills and on the plain of the Irrawaddy. Most of the township...
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    withdraw speedily as Pegu forces marched toward Toungoo. Pegu's forces withdrew from his territory but Bayinnaung now decided that Pegu must be eliminated...
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    installed Maha Thammaracha as a vassal king of Ayutthaya. After six years in Pegu, c. 1570, Prince Naret and his brother the White Prince returned to Ayutthaya...
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