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Bagan
History
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Myanmar
History
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Bagan
history, Myanmar History,
Bagan Irrawaddy, Irrawaddy,
Pagoda, Temples.
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Bagan history tells
a
story of culture and
violence over more than thousand five
hundred years. Around two thousand religious
edifices and ruins still stand in the dusty
plains of central Myanmar just beside the
Irrawaddy or Ayeyarwady river long time ago
there were over 4000 of them but, decay,
flooding and several earthquakes made them
crumble and been washed away.
Wars and
infights within the dynasties and families
took its toll. But it still shows a great
culture who was able to continuo over such a
long period of time. The actual end to
Myanmar Kings and dynasties came when the
British conquered the country. At that time
Mandalay was the capital of then Burma.
As a matter of
fact, when the British came, took over the
country and exiled the King and Queen to
India, the country was on a level with the |
Old Bagan
Bagan Myanmar |
Meiji Dynasty in
Japan at Mandalay they even had the first
Street Car in Asia. The Brits destroyed
everything, stole and looted the country
since they wanted to keep then Burma as a a
place to deliver raw material only, such as
wood, simple textiles and other.
At that time old
Bagan was already of no importance. Only by
the mid of the last century the area got a
"weak up call" when the first tourist came
in on a culture trip.
Some of the
first were historians from Russia, before
USSR and East Germany. |
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Bagan, with walls and Tharaba Gate,
as seen today was one of the cities built
during the reign of King Pyinbyu in 849 A.D. He was the
34th. king of the Bagan dynasty and started to prosper
with commercial relations with Shans, Indian and
Chinese
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