Mongyang State

Mongyang or Möngyang (Burmese: မိုးညှင်း, romanized: Mohnyin; also known as Mong Yang; Thai: เมือง​ยาง) was a Shan state in what is today Burma. It was an outlying territory, located away from the main Shan State area in present-day Kachin State. The state existed before 1400 and after 1604. The main town was Mohnyin (Mong Yang).

"Mongyang" redirects here. Not to be confused with Mong Yang Township.
Mongyang State
State of the Shan States
bf. 14th century–1604

Mongyang (Mohnyin) in a map of the Toungoo Kingdom
History
History 
• Möngyang state established
bf. 14th century
• Annexed by the Kingdom of Burma
1604
Succeeded by
Taungoo Dynasty
Today part ofMohnyin District

History

Möngyang (Mong Yang) was a Shan state established at an uncertain date before the 15th century with the town of Mohnyin as its capital. In 1527 Mongyang armies succeeded in capturing Ava, upsetting the delicate power balance that had existed in the area for nearly two centuries.[1]

A record of the conquest of Mongyang in 1557 is mentioned in a bell inscription relating the conquests of King Bayinnaung.[2] Occupied by the Taungoo dynasty of Burma between 1579 and 1584, the state was extinguished in 1604.[3]

Möngyang (Mohnyin)

State existed before 1400 and after 1604 .

Saophas:

  • 60?–6?? Hkun Hpa (2nd son of Hkun Lu)
  • 940–964 Sao Kyan Hpa
  • 1390–1410 Hso Kyaung Hpa
  • 1410–1430 Hso Ngaan Hpa
  • 1430–1451 Hso Taan Hpa
  • 1451–1486 Hso Bok Hpa
  • 2 April 1486 – 1533 Hso Kyen Hpa
  • 1533–1567 Sao Möng Hkam
  • 1567–1603 Sao Pha Hkam
  • 1603–1629 Hso Htin Hpa
  • 1629–1652 Hso Ngaan Hpa
  • 1652–1674 Hso Ngam Möng
  • 1674–1697 Hso Hkan Hpa
  • 1697–1713 Hso Oum Hpa
  • 1713–1733 Hso Hkam Hpa
  • 1733–1753 Hso Ka Hpa
  • 1753–1773 Hso Han Hpa
  • 1773–1793 Sao Kyam Hkam
  • 1793–1805 Sao Pan Hkam
  • 1805–1816 Hkam Hlaing Hpa
  • 1816–1833 Sao Haw Lik
  • 1833–1845 Sao Pan Serk
  • 1845–1876 Sao Hsan Hpa
  • 1876–1924 Sao Hla Hkam (last saopha)

Myowuns

Under the Konbaung dynasty the area of the former state was administered by a Viceroy called a Myowun, who was appointed by the king and possessed civil, judicial, fiscal and military powers.[4]

  • 1853–18?? Nemyo Minhtin Themanta Yaza (Six Myowuns – Mohnyin, Kawng Ton, Shwegu, Moe Ta, Yin khia, Kat Hsa)

Mong Yang is a playable nation in Europa Universalis IV.

References
  1. Countries and Territories of the World: Vol I; Asia p. 407
  2. U Thaw Kaung, Accounts of King Bayinnaung's Life and Hanthawady Hsinbyu-myashin Ayedawbon, a Record of his Campaigns
  3. Shan (Tai) states
  4. Nisbet 1901, p. 153.
  • Nisbet, John (1901). Burma Under British Rule—and Before. Vol. 1. Archbald Constable & Company.


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