Kengtung (, ; also spelled
Kyaingtong,
Chiang Tung,
Cheingtung, and
Kengtong) is a town in
Shan State,
Burma. It is the principal town of
Kengtung Township.
History
The 'Sawbwa Palace, a historic landmark, was destroyed in 1991 by the Burmese government.
Kengtung was founded by the grandson of King
Mangrai. This migration of the Chiangmai dynasty, made in the 13th century with the idea of founding a new kingdom which called
Lannathai in
Chiang Mai, has resulted in Kengtung having a different type of Tai population from the rest of the
Shan State.
Kengtung, like other major towns in the Shan Plateau, was home to a Shan
Saopah. Kengtung was the base of the Kengtung Sawbanate, and had a Sawbwa palace, built by
Sao Kawng Kiao Intaleng in 1905.
The city hosted the headquarters of the Thai
Phayap Army, which had briefly occupied the Shan States from 1942 until the end of the
Second World War.
It is home to the
Kyaing Tong Degree College.
See also
Bibliography
- J. G. Scott, Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States. 5 vols. Rangoon, 1900-1901.
- Sao Sāimöng Mangrāi, The Pādaeng Chronicle and the Jengtung State Chronicle Translated. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1981
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