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THATON

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 728 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THATON  , a See also:

town and See also:district in the See also:Tenasserim See also:division of See also:Lower See also:Burma . The town is situated below a See also:hill range, Io m. from the See also:sea . It was formerly the See also:capital of the See also:Talaing See also:kingdom and a sea-See also:port . Pop . (1901) 14,342 . The district has an See also:area of 5079 sq. m.; pop . (1901) 343,510, showing an in-crease of 29 per cent. in the See also:decade . It was formerly a sub-division of See also:Amherst district, but was formed in 1895 out of See also:part of that and of Shwegyin district, which has now ceased to exist . The See also:staple See also:crop is See also:rice, but a See also:good See also:deal of See also:tobacco also is grown . The railway from See also:Pegu to See also:Martaban, recently opened, passes through this district and is calculated to increase its prosperity and See also:population .

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