Mongpu State

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Mongpu State
Möngpu
State of the Shan States

17th century–1959
Location of Mongpu
Möngpu State in an Imperial Gazetteer of India map
Capital Mong Pu
History
 •  Founded as vassal state of Kengtung 17th century
 •  Abdication of the last ruler 1959

Mongpu or Möngpu (also known as Mong Pu or Möng Pu) was small state of the Shan States in what is today Burma.

History

Mongpu was a small dependency of Kengtung State[1] that had been a tract of land claimed by Mongnai State but annexed by Kengtung along with Monghsat further to the south. The capital and residence of the ruler was Mong Pu (Möng Pu) town.[2]

Little is known about this state except that its forests, which included valuable teak, had been overexploited at the turn of the 20th century during British Rule in Burma.[3] Loi San mountain is located about 2 km to the southeast of the town, overlooking the Möng Pu valley.[4]

References

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  2. Sir Charles Crosthwaite "The pacification of Burma"
  3. Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 17, p. 408.
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