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The Shan States were a collection of minor Shan kingdoms called möng whose rulers bore the title saopha (sawbwa). In British Burma, they were analogous

Shan State (Shan: မိူင်းတႆး, Möng Tai; Burmese: ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်, pronounced [ʃáɰ̃ pjìnɛ̀]) is a state of Myanmar. Shan State borders China (Yunnan) to the

The Federated Shan States (Shan: မိူင်းႁူမ်ႈတုမ်ႊၸိုင်ႈတႆး Muang Hom Tum Jueng Tai; Burmese: ပဒေသရာဇ်ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်စု) was an administrative division of

question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script. The Shan people (Shan: တႆး, pronounced [taj˥], or Burmese: ရှမ်းလူမျိုး, pronounced [ʃáɰ̃

rehabilitated many notable temples. Tilokaraj then expanded west to the Shan States of Laihka, Hsipaw, Mong Nai, and Yawnghwe.[citation needed] After Tilokaraj

princely states and declared in 1929 that "only people who have the right to determine the future of the Princely States must be the people of these States".

Kingdom of Ava, the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, the Kingdom of Mrauk U and the Shan States were principal powers, came to dominate the landscape, replete with ever-shifting

Look up shan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shan may refer to; Shan (surname), or 单 in Chinese, a Chinese surname Shan, a variant of the Welsh given

pressed down southward into the present-day Shan Hills and into the Irrawaddy valley. Ancient city-states one by one surrendered or were overrun by the

integration of the Chinese Shan States into the Irrawaddy valley administrative system. After conquering the Shan States between 1557 and 1563, he implemented