Myitta Subtownship ( my, မေတ္တာမြို့နယ်ခွဲ) is a sub
township of
Dawei District in the
Taninthayi Division
Tanintharyi Region ( my, တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; Mon: or ; ms, Tanah Sari; formerly Tenasserim Division and subsequently Tanintharyi Division, th, ตะนาวศรี, RTGS: ''Tanao Si'', ; ...
of
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
. The main town is
Myitta (Matamyu), located on the western side of the
Tenasserim Range near the confluence of two tributaries of the
Great Tenasserim River.
History
At the time of the 1765–67
Burmese–Siamese War General
Maha Nawrahta
Gen. Maha Nawrahta ( my, မဟာနော်ရထာ, , called Mang Maha Noratha by Damrong Rajanubhab; d. March 1767) was joint commander-in-chief of the Royal Burmese Army from 1765 to 1767. The general is best known for commanding the southe ...
of the
Royal Burmese armed forces led his 20,000-strong main southern army to invade Siam via the Myitta Pass.
During the
Japanese conquest of Burma
The Japanese invasion of Burma was the opening phase of the Burma campaign in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II, which took place over four years from 1942 to 1945. During the first year of the campaign (December 1941 to mid-1942) ...
, the forces of the
Imperial Japanese Army began their invasion crossing the
Tenasserim Hills through Myitta Pass from
Thailand. In the night of 17/18 January 1942 they attacked Myitta town. The three
6th Burma Rifles companies of the Tavoy garrison posted there were not able to put up resistance and fled into the forests.
Currently a road is being built to
Dawei (Tavoy) from
Bangkok through the
Phu Nam Ron border pass that will improve communication with Myitta town.
The Economist - Infrastructure for the new Myanmar
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References
External links
Myanmar's Dawei Road Link from Myitta to DDC Office 20131015 # 4
Townships of Taninthayi Region
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