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

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

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