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Mongkung State

This article is about the former Shan princely state. For the present-day administrative division, see Mong Kung Township. For the town, see Mong Kung.
Mongkung (Möngküng)
State of the Shan States
1835–1959

Möng Kung State in an Imperial Gazetteer of India map
Area 
• 1901
2,650 km2 (1,020 sq mi)
Population 
• 1901
30,482
History 
• State founded
1835
• Abdication of the last Saopha
1959
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Hsenwi State
Shan State

Mongkung (also spelt Möngküng), also known as Maingkaing (Burmese: မိုင်းကိုင်), was a Shan state in what is today Burma. It belonged to the Eastern Division of the Southern Shan States. Its capital was Mong Kung, in the valley of the Nam Teng. The largest minority were Palaung people.

History

Mongkung state was founded in ancient times as Langkavadi. In 1835, after the British annexed Upper Burma and established their rule in the region, Mongkung had been formerly a feudatory state of Hsenwi.[1]

Rulers

The rulers of Mongkung bore the title Myoza in 1835-54 and 1863–73; Saopha in 1854-63 and from 1873.[2]

Saophas and Myozas

  • 1835 - 1860 Hkun Long (d. 1860)
  • 1860 - 1863 Hkun Long II
  • 1863 - 1873 Gu Na (d. 1873)
  • 1873 - 1879 Hkun San Kwan
  • 1879 - .... Hkun Mong (b. 1873 - d. ....)
  • 1879 - 1883 Heng Hkon Sang -Regent

References

  1. ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 17, p. 409.
  2. ^ Shan and Karenni States of Burma
  • "Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan states"
  • The Imperial Gazetteer of India
  • "WHKMLA : History of the Shan States". 18 May 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2010.

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