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- Soon after Burma's independence in 1948, many colonial-era names of streets and parks were changed to more nationalistic Burmese names. In 1989, the military junta changed the city's English name to "Yangon", along with many other changes in English transliteration of Burmese names.
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Yangon was founded as Dagon in the early 11th century (c. 1028–1043) by the Mon people, who inhabited Lower Burma at that time. [14] Dagon became an important pilgrimage pagoda town, starting in the 14th century, during the Hanthawaddy Kingdom.
1484 - Great Bell of Dhammazedi presented. 1583 - Italian merchant, Gasparo Balbi visits. [6] 1755 - Dagon captured by Burman King Alaungpaya and renamed "Yangon." [7] 1756 - Between 1756 and 1759 Alaungpaya appointed Mon Governor of Yangon, Smim Noradecha (Ma Pu) joins Mon rebellion (approximate date).
6 days ago · When King Alaungpaya (who founded the last dynasty of Myanmar kings) conquered southern Myanmar in the mid-1750s, he developed Dagon as a port and renamed it Yangon (“The End of Strife”), a name that was later transliterated as Rangoon by Arakanese interpreters accompanying the British. By the early 19th century the town had a thriving ...
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Change has marked Yangon, Myanmar's capital city in recent years. Most notably the establishment of three new towns by the ruling State. Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) in the late 1980s in- creased the city's area to more than twice the previous area.
Yangon: coming soon. In the historic heart of the city, the Secretariat Building, the colonial seat of British Burma, sat abandoned and fenced off behind barbed wire, foliage growing out of its roof.
YANGON at a glance Brief History of Yangon There was a small fishing village named Dagon, which will later grew into Yangon, a city centred around the Shwedagon Pagoda. In 1755, King Alaungpaya conquered Dagon, renamed it "Yangon", which means 'end of strife'. In 1952, during the Second Anglo-Burmese War, the British seized Yangon and all of Lower
Jan 9, 2015 · In 1755, King Alaungpaya, founder of the Konbaung Dynasty which ruled the country from 1752 to 1885, built a new city called Dagon on the site of present day Yangon. The history of Dagon is tied very closely to a rather shiny, beautiful pagoda which dominates today’s Yangon skyline.
