Arakan (Empire)
The Arakan Empire is a perished empire in Southeast Asia in what is now Myanmar .
history
Arakan formed an independent kingdom whose princes ruled several times over Ava and even parts of Bengal . From 1690, disputes over the throne ravaged the country until it was conquered in 1784 by the army of the sixth king of the Konbaung Dynasty Bodawpaya . The Burmese raged so cruelly among the inhabitants, called Magh , that they fled in large numbers across the border, where they were warmly received by the English . This eventually led to the war that brought Arakan under British protection through the Treaty of Yandaboo between the British East India Company and the King of Ava ( Bagyidaw ) on February 24, 1826 . The area was integrated into British India .
Today, the Rakhine state belonging to Myanmar is located in the area of Arakan .
literature
- Jacques P. Unfortunately: Le Royaume d'Arakan, Birmanie. Son histoire politique entre le début du XVe et la fin du XVIIe siècle. EFEO, Paris 2004.
- Jacques P. Unfortunately: Arakan, the kingdom of waterways. War policy and foundations of its power expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Streamlines in Southeast Asia. Periplus Yearbook for Non-European History 2009, Lit Verlag, Berlin 2009, pp. 27–47.
Web links
- Michael W. Charney: ARAKAN, MIN YAZAGYI, AND THE PORTUGUESE , June 1993 , SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, Autumn 2005, ISSN 1479-8484.
- starnarcosis.net: Arakans kings and dynasties (list)
- projectsouthasia: Treaty of Yandaboo, February 24, 1826