Möng Nai, also known as Mone,
was a
Shan state in what is today
Burma
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...
. It belonged to the Eastern Division of the Southern
Shan States
The Shan States were a collection of minor Shan people, Shan kingdoms called ''mueang, möng'' whose rulers bore the title ''saopha'' (''sawbwa''). In British rule in Burma, British Burma, they were analogous to the princely states of Britis ...
.
[ Its capital was the town of ]Möng Nai
Möng Nai, also known as Mone, was a Shan people, Shan state in what is today Burma. It belonged to the Eastern Division of the Southern Shan States. Its capital was the town of Mong Nai, Möng Nai.
History
Möng Nai was founded in 1223 or 1318 ...
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History
Möng Nai was founded in 1223 or 1318. Northern Thai chronicles claim that the state was founded in 1318 by Khun Khüa, a son of Mangrai
Mangrai (; ; c. 1238–1311) was the 25th king of Ngoenyang (r. 1261–1292) and the first king of Lanna (r. 1292–1311). He established a new city, Chiang Mai, as the capital of the Lanna Kingdom (1296–1558).Wyatt, D. K. Thailand, A Short Hi ...
, and ruled as a vassal state
A vassal state is any state that has a mutual obligation to a superior state or empire, in a status similar to that of a vassal in the feudal system in medieval Europe. Vassal states were common among the empires of the Near East, dating back to ...
of Lan Na
The Lan Na kingdom or the Kingdom of Lanna (, , "Kingdom of a Million Rice Fields"; , , ), also known as Lannathai, was an Indianized state centered in present-day Northern Thailand from the 13th to the 18th centuries.
The cultural developmen ...
in the coming centuries. However, Shan histories claim that it was conquered by Sam Long Hpa in 1223, and a branch of the "old Möng Mi line" were put in charge of the state as tributaries
A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream ('' main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which the ...
of Möng Mao
Möng Mao Lông, commonly known as Möng Mao; Also rendered into English as the Möng Mao kingdom, Maw Shan kingdom, or Mäng Maaw. or Luchuan ( 麓川) in Chinese sources, was a Tai dynastic regime which held sway over the frontier regions of ...
. The native records of the state were lost in various fires.
The state's ritual name was Saturambha.
In later centuries, Möng Nai included the substates of Kengtawng
Rulers (title Myoza)
*c. 1802 – 1848: Maung Shwe Paw
*1848–1850: Maung Yit
*1850–1851: U Po Ka
*1852: U Shwe Kyu
Saophas
Ritual style ''Kambawsa Rahta Mahawunthiri Pawara Thudamaraza''.
References
External links
"Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan states"The Imperial Gazetteer of India
Shan States
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