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*[http://moncurdg.com/2012/07/24/an-english-girls-first-impressions-of-burmah/ "An English Girl’s First Impressions of Burmah"] July 24, 2012. About the book of this name, see below.
**[http://moncurdg.com/2013/07/08/beth-ellis/ Beth Ellis] July 8, 2013 moncurdg.com. Retrieved 26 August 2014. Remyo was the earlier name for Maymyo
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|presidency= [[Bengal (Presidency)|Bengal]]
|image=
|coordinates= [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=22.03455,96.458747&spn=0.1,0.1&q=22.03455°N, 96.458747°E]
|altitude= 1,070 metres (3,510 ft)
|presentname=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyin_Oo_Lwin Pyin Oo Lwin]
|stateprovince=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandalay_Division Mandalay Division]
|country=[[Burma]]
|transport=[[Mandalay]]-[[Lashio Branch Railway]] of [[Burma Railway]]
}}
'''Maymyo''' was the principal [[Hill station|hill station]] of Burma, in Mandalay District, Upper Burmaduring the British period.
==Spelling variants==
Modern name: Pyin Oo Lwin<br>
Previous name: Maymyo, and even earlier, Remyo.<ref name=Beth>[http://moncurdg.com/2012/07/24/an-english-girls-first-impressions-of-burmah/ "An English Girl’s First Impressions of Burmah"] July 24, 2012. See the comments for biographical details of the author and information about Remyo.</ref>
==FIBIS resources==
*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=701&s_id=212 Maymyo Cemetery]
==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.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
===Historical books online===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V17_244.gif "Maymyo Town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 17'', page 238.
*[https://archive.org/details/englishgirlsfirs00elliiala ''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. (Biographical details of the author.<ref name=Beth/>)==References==<references/>
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