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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.

Contents

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.