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HKAMTI LONG (called Kantigyi by the B...

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 541 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HKAMTI See also:

LONG (called Kantigyi by the Burmese, and Bor Hkampti by the peoples on the See also:Assam See also:side)  , a collection of seven Shan states subordinate to See also:Burma, but at See also:present beyond the administrative border . Estimated See also:area, 900 sq. m.; estimated pop . 11,00o . It lies between 27° and 28° N. and 97° and 98° E., and is bordered by the See also:Mishmi See also:country on the N., by the Patkai range on the W., by the Hukawng valley on the S. and E., and indeed all See also:round by various Chingpaw or Kachin communities . The country is little known . It was visited by T . T . See also:Cooper, the See also:Chinese traveller and See also:political See also:agent at See also:Bhamo, where he was murdered; by See also:General Woodthorpe and See also:Colonel See also:Macgregor in 1884, by Mr Errol See also:Grey in the following See also:year, and by See also:Prince See also:Henry of See also:Orleans in 1895 . All of these, however, limited their explorations to the valley of the Mali-hka, the western See also:branch of the See also:Irrawaddy See also:river . Hkamti has shrunk very much from its old See also:size . It was no doubt the northernmost See also:province of the Shan See also:kingdom, founded at Mogaung by Sam See also:Long-hpa, the See also:brother of the ruler of Kambawsa, when that See also:empire had reached its greatest See also:extension . The irruption of Kachins or Chingpaw from the See also:north has now completely hemmed the See also:state in .

Prince Henry of Orleans described it as " a splendid territory, fertile in See also:

soil and abundant in See also:water, where tropical and temperate culture flourish See also:side by side, and the inhabitants are protected on three fronts by mountains." According to him the Kiutze, the See also:people of the hills between the Irrawaddy and the See also:Salween, See also:call it the kingdom of Moam .

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