Bakata was the capital of the Ahom kingdom (present-day

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

Northeast India Northeast India, officially the North Eastern Region (NER), is the easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political Administrative divisions of India, administrative division of the country. It comprises eight States and ...

) established by the Ahom king

Suhungmung Suhungmung (), or Dihingia Roja was one of the most prominent Ahom Kings who ruled at the cusp of Assam's medieval history. His reign broke from the early Ahom rule and established a multi-ethnic polity in his kingdom. Under him the Ahom Ki ...

(1497–1539) in the 16th-century. Since his capital was by the Dihing river, Suhungmung is also known as the ''Dihingia Raja''. The next king,

Suklenmung Suklenmung(1539–1552) was a king of the Ahom kingdom in medieval Assam. Since he established his capital at Garhgaon (which would remain the capital of the Ahom kingdom till the establishment of the Tungkhungia kings), he is also called th ...

(1539–1552), moved the capital to

Garhgaon Gargaon ( Tai-Ahom:Tsé-hung;) is a historic city in Assam, India and served as the capital of the Ahom kingdom for many years. It was built by the Ahom king Suklenmung (Gargaiya Roja) in 1540. It lies 13 km east of present-day Sivasa ...

. The place is recorded in the Chinese chronicle

Ming Shilu The ''Ming Veritable Records'' or ''Ming Shilu'' (), contains the imperial annals of the emperors of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). It is the single largest historical source of information on the dynasty. According to modern historians, it "p ...

and is referred to as Bajiata. Before it became the Ahom capital in the early 16th century, the Ming Shilu describes it as a polity subordinate to ''Da Gu-la'', an unidentified polity located somewhere in modern-day Northern Burma or Assam."The MSL refers to Ba-jia-ta as a polity subordinate to Da Gu-la. Given the likelihood that Da Gu-la indicates the Ahom (or other Assam) polity, there seems liitle doubt that Ba-jia-ta is the Chinese name for Bakata, which became the Ahom capital, located in today's Assam."

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* Capitals of Ahom kingdom Ahom kingdom {{Asia-geo-stub