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MARTABAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 784 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARTABAN  , a

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town in the
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Thaton
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district of
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Lower
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Burma, on the right
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bank of the
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Salween, opposite
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Moulmein . It is said to have been founded in A.D . 573, by the first
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king of
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Pegu, and was once the
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capital of a powerful
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Talaing
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kingdom; but it is now little more than a
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village . Martaban is frequently mentioned by
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European voyagers of the 16th
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century; and it has given the name of " Martavans " to a class of large vessels of glazed pottery, also known in
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India as " Pegu jars." It was twice captured by the
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British, in 1824 and 1852 . The
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Bay of Martaban receives the
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rivers
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Irrawaddy and Salween .

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