Kingdom of Ava
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The Kingdom of Ava (Burmese: အင်းဝခေတ်, pronounced [ʔɪ́ɰ̃wa̰ kʰɪʔ]) was the dominant kingdom that ruled upper Burma (Myanmar) from 1365 to 1555. Founded in 1365, the kingdom was the successor state to the petty kingdoms of Myinsaing, Pinya and Sagaing that had ruled central Burma since the collapse of the Pagan Empire in the late 13th century.
Kingdom of Ava အင်းဝခေတ် | |||||||||||||
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1365–1555 | |||||||||||||
Status | Kingdom | ||||||||||||
Capital | Sagaing Pinya Ava | ||||||||||||
Common languages | Old Burmese Old Shan | ||||||||||||
Religion | Theravada Buddhism | ||||||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||
• 1364–1367 | Thado Minbya | ||||||||||||
• 1367–1400 | Swa Saw Ke | ||||||||||||
• 1400–1421 | Minkhaung I | ||||||||||||
• 1426–1439 | Mohnyin Thado | ||||||||||||
• 1527–1542 | Thohanbwa | ||||||||||||
Legislature | Hluttaw | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
• Thado Minbya seized Sagaing | by 30 May 1364 | ||||||||||||
• Ava Kingdom founded | 26 February 1365 | ||||||||||||
September 1367 | |||||||||||||
1385–1424 | |||||||||||||
• Start of House of Mohnyin | 16 May 1426 | ||||||||||||
• Toungoo secession | 16 October 1510 | ||||||||||||
• Start of Shan period | 14 March 1527 | ||||||||||||
• Toungoo conquest | 22 January 1555 | ||||||||||||
Currency | kyat | ||||||||||||
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Like the small kingdoms that preceded it, Ava may have been led by Bamarised Shan kings who claimed descent from the kings of Pagan.[1][2] Scholars debate that the Shan ethnicity of Avan kings comes from mistranslation, particularly from a record of the Avan kings' ancestors ruling a Shan village in central Burma prior to their rise or prominence.[3]