THATON
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V26,
Page 728
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
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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