Thayetmyo

Thayetmyo
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	19.325°N 95.183056°E
Altitude:	52 m (171 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Thayetmyo
State/Province:	Magway Division
Country:	Burma
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Thayetmyo, a port on the right (western) bank of the Irrawaddy River, was the headquarters of Thayetmyo District in the Minbu Division of Burma during the British period. A cantonment was built in 1854.

A brief comment that in 1877-8 Thayetmyo was a Frontier Station

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Modern name: Thayetmyo
It is likely that Thayetingo, where British troops were based, is the same place as Thayetmyo.

External links

Thayetmyo Town Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 23 page 354

Historical books on-line

• "Thayet District" , page 728 The British Burma Gazetteer Volume 2, A-Z (1879) Archive.org
• "Thayet-myo", page 770 The British Burma Gazetteer Volume 2, A-Z (1879) Archive.org
• "Annual Sanitary Report of the Station of Thayet Myo, for 1858-59" by J. L. Ranking, Esq., Ex-Officio Sanitary Officer, page 114 Madras Quarterly Journal of Medical Science Volume 2 1861 Google Books
• "Report of an Epidemic of Cholera at Thayetmyo, British Burmah in 1869, especially with reference to its appearance in the head-quarters and right wing of Her Majesty’s 76th Regiment" by Surgeon WA Thomson, M.B. 76th Regiment, page 392 Army Medical Department Report for the year 1869 Google Books