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==FIBIS resources== | ==FIBIS resources== | ||
*[http:// | *[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=701&s_id=212 Maymyo Cemetery] | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://www.pyinoolwin.info/ Pyin Oo Lwin: Myanmar's Highland City of Flowers]. This informative website includes historical information, including cemeteries and churches. | *[http://www.pyinoolwin.info/ Pyin Oo Lwin: Myanmar's Highland City of Flowers]. This informative website includes historical information, including cemeteries and churches. | ||
*[http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/lifestyle/10317-empire-of-hills-in-pyin-oo-lwin-a-historian-retraces-the-colonial-past-and-discovers-tourist-pleasures-old-and-new.html "Run for the hills"] by Amaury Lorin 12 May 2014 ''The Myanmar Times''. Retrieved 26 August 2014 | *[http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/lifestyle/10317-empire-of-hills-in-pyin-oo-lwin-a-historian-retraces-the-colonial-past-and-discovers-tourist-pleasures-old-and-new.html "Run for the hills"] by Amaury Lorin 12 May 2014 ''The Myanmar Times''. Retrieved 26 August 2014 | ||
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/61/a4036961.shtml “A British Boy in Wartime Burma”] by Richard Hurley BBC-WW2 People’s War. Hurley was a 9 year old boy living in Maymyo when Japanese warplanes attacked in 1942. Retrieved 26 August 2014 | *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/61/a4036961.shtml “A British Boy in Wartime Burma”] by Richard Hurley BBC-WW2 People’s War. Hurley was a 9 year old boy living in Maymyo when Japanese warplanes attacked in 1942. Retrieved 26 August 2014 | ||
Revision as of 10:19, 17 December 2020
| Maymyo | |
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| [[Image:|250px| ]] | |
| Presidency: Bengal | |
| Coordinates: | 22.03455°N, 96.458747°E |
| Altitude: | 1,070 metres (3,510 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Pyin Oo Lwin |
| State/Province: | Mandalay Division |
| Country: | Burma |
| Transport links | |
| Mandalay-Lashio Branch Railway of Burma Railway | |
Maymyo was the principal hill station in Mandalay District, Upper Burma during the British period.
Spelling variants
Modern name: Pyin Oo Lwin
Previous name: Maymyo, and even earlier, Remyo
FIBIS resources
External links
- Pyin Oo Lwin: Myanmar's Highland City of Flowers. This informative website includes historical information, including cemeteries and churches.
- "Run for the hills" by Amaury Lorin 12 May 2014 The Myanmar Times. Retrieved 26 August 2014
- “A British Boy in Wartime Burma” by Richard Hurley BBC-WW2 People’s War. Hurley was a 9 year old boy living in Maymyo when Japanese warplanes attacked in 1942. Retrieved 26 August 2014
Historical books online
- "Maymyo Town" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 17, page 238.
- An English girl's first impression of Burmah by Beth Ellis 1899 Archive.org. The author stayed with her sister and brother-in-law at Remyo
