Kyawkku (also known as Kyawkku Hsiwan or Kyakku) was a
Shan state in the
Myelat
Myelat () is a historical region of the southwestern Shan State of Myanmar. Originally this region included some of the smaller states typically ruled by " Myosas" (chief of town) or "Ngwegunhmus" (silver revenue chief), buffering the plains of Bur ...
region of what is today
Burma
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...
. Its capital was the village of
Kyawkku (Myinkyado) which had 344 inhabitants in 1901.
History
Kyawkku was founded around 1600 CE. It was a tributary of Burma until 1887, when the
Shan states
The Shan States were a collection of minor Shan people, Shan kingdoms called ''mueang, möng'' whose rulers bore the title ''saopha'' (''sawbwa''). In British rule in Burma, British Burma, they were analogous to the princely states of Britis ...
submitted to British rule after the fall of the
Konbaung dynasty
The Konbaung dynasty (), also known as the Third Burmese Empire (တတိယမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်), was the last dynasty that ruled Burma from 1752 to 1885. It created the second-largest empire in history of Mya ...
. The state was merged with
Poila
Poila (also known as Pwehla) was a Shan state in the Myelat region of what is today Burma. Its population was mostly Taungyo, with the remainder being Danu and Pa-O
The Pa'O (; , , or ; ; Eastern Poe Karen: တံင်သူ; ; also spelt ...
in 1922.
Rulers
The title of Kyawkku's rulers was Ngwegunhmu.
*.... - .... Nga San Bon
*.... - .... Nga San Mya
*.... - 1783 Nga San Ma
*1783 - 1820 Nga Kaw Tha
*1820 - 1821 Nga Thi Ri
*1821 - 1843 Nga Chit Win
*1844 - 1852 Nga Shwe Maung I (1st time)
*1852 - 1856 Nga Shwe Yit -Regent
*1856 - 1863 Nga Shwe Maung I (2nd time)
*1863 - 1865 Nga Yan Kon -Regent
*1865 - 1873 Nga San
*1873 - 1874 Nga Shwe Maung II -Regent
*1874 - 1876 Nga Tha U -Regent
*1876 - 1877 Nga Tun -Regent
*1877 - 1881 Nga Pai Su (Nga Pyan)
*1881 - 1922? Nga Thaing (b. 1873 - d. 1922?)
References
Shan States
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