Toungoo
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
| Coordinates: | 18.933333°N 96.433333°E |
| Altitude: | 49 m (160 ft) |
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| Place Name: | Toungoo |
| State/Province: | Bago Division |
| Country: | Burma |
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Toungoo was the headquarters of 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 brief comment that in 1877-8 Tounghoo was a Frontier Station[1]
Spelling variants
Modern name: Taungoo
Variants: Toungoo / Tonngoo / 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. [2]
External links
- Toungoo Town Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 23, page 433
- Drawings of an elephant battery at Tongo, Burma 1885 with guns loaded on the elephants’ backs. old-print.com (archived page) Originally from The Graphic Saturday, October 24, 1885
Historical books on-line
- "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
- "Toung-Ngoo" The British Burma Gazetteer, page 806, published 1879 Archive.org
- "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. Toungoo District Vol A 1914. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
References
- ↑ Reminiscences of an Indian Cavalry Officer, page 44 by Colonel John Sutton Edward Western 1922 Archive.org.
- ↑ Page 87 Wanderings in Burma by George W Bird 1897 Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University