Historic Sight
All countries that have a history reaching back over many centuries contain more than one city or ruin which at some time filled the place of a capital. In this volume, Mandalay and other cities of the past...
Mandalay was founded by king Mindon. Before founding the city, the seven major monument were marked off the ground plans with stakes at the same time.
Mandalay
Pagan, lying on the left bank of the Irrawaddy in the dry zone of Central Burma, is the most important historical site in the country.
Bagan The year 1757, which by common acceptance ushered in the Empire of Great Britain in India, was a scarcely less notable one in the annals of Burma.
Amarapura
Sagaing, founded six hundred years ago, upon the extinction of Pagan, is one of the many past capitals of Burma, and if it has no great place in history, it retains, for it can never lose, the glory of its site.
Sagaing
Innwa had once been the capital of Myanmar kings. Some of the monuments still left in vicinity of old Innwa Royal City were of the style during the reign of King Bagyidaw.
Ava
Lower Burma in 1755 King Alaungpaya renamed the small old town of Dagon as Yangon (end of strife) and founded a new city on the old site.
Dagon
The early history of Pegu is also more or less legendary.
Pegu
Another significant Pyu site, Halin (or Halingyi-Great Halin), lies about II miles south-east of Shwebo in Upper Burma.
Halin
According to local chronicles Arakan (Dinnyawadi) has a long history as an independent state from very early times before the Christian era.
Mrauk-U
Ancient sites in Burma are generally associated with fabulous traditions and folklore handed down from generation to generation since ages past. Beikthano is not an exception.
Beikthano
Bodawpaya had his temporary residence on an island in the Irrawaddy river when he superintended for many years the building of the Mingun pagoda on the west bank.
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