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{{Places of Interest|title=Pegu|name=Pegu |link=xxxxx}}
  
"'''Pegu''', a town and former capital of Lower Burma, giving its name to a district and a division. The town is situated on a river of the same name, 47 m. N.E. of [[Rangoon]] by rail." ("Pegu", ''Love to Know 1911'')
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'''Pegu''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V20_090.gif Pegu District] in the Pegu Division of [[Burma]] during the British period.
  
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Pegu was the capital of the ancient Taline kingdom.
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== Spelling Variants ==
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Modern name: Pegu/Bago<br>
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== Military history ==
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[[Battle of Pegu]] June 1852<br>[[Relief of Pegu]] Dec 1852
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==Churches and Cemeteries==
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Nick Johnson on 27 December 2012 advised about a visit to Pegu/Bago. "...I visited the Anglican Church there which has no BMD registers at all any more (!) and visited the current Anglican Cemetery outside the town of Bago/Pegu. The graves from the original graveyard have been moved at least twice apparently and nothing pre 1946 appears to have survived." <ref>Johnson, Nick [https://web.archive.org/web/20200927030030/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india-british-raj&thread=986754 Pegu/Bago Cemetery]  ''Rootsweb British Raj Mailing List'' 27 December 2012, now archived.</ref>
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
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*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V20_102.gif Pegu Town] Imperial Gazetteer<br>
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===Historical books online===
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*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/4YMB6WYOH2UZRZX6KAM2F7GFJ52VCCOD ''A Concise Account Of The Climate, Produce, Trade, Government, Manners, and Customs, Of The Kingdom Of Pegu''] by W. Hunter A.M. Surgeon. Calcutta printed reprinted London  1789 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek “The result of observations made on a voyage performed by order of the Hon. East-India Company”
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*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.17217 ''Burma Gazetteer: Pegu District''] by A J Page ICS, Settlement Officer, 1917. Archive.org, mirror from the Digital Library of India.
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*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082439443?urlappend=%3Bseq=93 ''Sketches of Oriental Heads''] by Colesworthey Grant c 1846-1850 HathiTrust Digital Library. (These appear as the second half of a book file ''Portrait sketches of the public characters of Calcutta'' by Colesworthey Grant) Includes images of ethnic groups such as Taline [Mon], Karen and Shan.
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[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Pegu "Pegu"] ''Love to Know 1911''.
 
  
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegu "Bago, Burma"] ''Wikipedia''.
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 05:28, 2 January 2021

Pegu
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 17.32911°N 96.499089°E
Altitude: 15 metres (49 feet)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Bago
State/Province: Bago Division
Country: Burma
Transport links
Burma Railway
Sittang Valley State Railway
FibiWiki Maps
See our interactive map of this location showing
places of interest during the British period
[xxxxx Pegu]



Pegu was the headquarters of Pegu District in the Pegu Division of Burma during the British period.

Pegu was the capital of the ancient Taline kingdom.

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Pegu/Bago

Military history

Battle of Pegu June 1852
Relief of Pegu Dec 1852

Churches and Cemeteries

Nick Johnson on 27 December 2012 advised about a visit to Pegu/Bago. "...I visited the Anglican Church there which has no BMD registers at all any more (!) and visited the current Anglican Cemetery outside the town of Bago/Pegu. The graves from the original graveyard have been moved at least twice apparently and nothing pre 1946 appears to have survived." [1]

External links

Historical books online

References

  1. Johnson, Nick Pegu/Bago Cemetery Rootsweb British Raj Mailing List 27 December 2012, now archived.