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'''Toungoo''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V23_427.gif Toungoo District] in the Tenasserim Division of Lower [[Burma ]] during the British period. It was situated on the Rangoon-Mandalay Railway, part of the [[Burma Railway]], 166 miles from Rangoon, and 220 miles from Mandalay. Up until 1893, Toungoo was an important cantonment.
A [http://www.archive.org/stream/reminiscencesofi00westuoft#page/44/mode/2up/search/Tounghoo brief comment] that in 1877-8 Tounghoo was a Frontier Station<ref>
==Spelling variants==
Modern name: Taungoo<br>
Variants: Toungoo/TonngooTonngo/Tongo/Tounghoo/Tonghoo/Toung-Ngoo/Taung-ngu
== History ==
[[Battle of Tounghoo]] 1853
==Churches==
*St John the Baptist Toungoo 1870. Church of England.
*St Paul’s Toungoo 1887. Church of England. <ref>[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:282/#page/113/mode/1up Page 87] ''Wanderings in Burma'' by George W Bird 1897 Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University</ref>
==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130905003317/http://www.old-print.com/mas_assets/full2/M1321885/M1321885445.jpg Drawings of an elephant battery at Tongo, Burma 1885] with guns loaded on the elephants’ backs. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131116224320/http://www.old-print.com/cgi-bin/item/M1321885445/search/16%252DAntique%252DPrint%252Dof%252D1885%252DBurma%252DElephant%252DBattery%252DTongo%252DIndia%252DAnimals%252D old-print.com] (archived page) Originally from ''The Graphic'' Saturday, October 24, 1885
==== Historical books on-line online ====*[https://archive.org/stream/b2809265x#page/332/mode/2up "Tonghoo"] page 332 ''Reports on mountain and marine sanitaria; medical and statistical observations on civil stations and military cantonments, jails - dispensaries - regiments - barracks, &c. within the Presidency of Madras, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and British Burmah from January 1858 to January 1862'' by Inspector General of Hospitals Duncan Macpherson. 1862 Archive.org. Part of the series ''Selections from the Records of the Madras Government''.*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/436/mode/2up "Tonghoo"] page 436 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/britishburmagaze02spea#page/806/mode/1up "Toung-Ngoo"] ''The British Burma Gazetteer'', page 806, published 1879 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/missionfieldamon25unkwuoft#page/n51/mode/2up "Ten Days at Toungoo"] by the Rev Dr Marks, Principal of St John’s College, Rangoon page 44 ''Mission Field, a monthly record of the proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel at home and abroad 1880'' Archive.org
* ''Burma Gazetteer: District'' Series. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206898/page/n3 ''Toungoo District Vol A''] 1914. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
== References ==
