Hsipaw
| သီပေါ Hsipaw |
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| Coordinates | 22 ° 37 ' N , 97 ° 18' E | ||
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| Country | Myanmar | ||
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Shan state | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | MM-17 | ||
| height | 419 m | ||
| Residents | 54,000 | ||
 View of Hsipaw
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Hsipaw ( Burmese သီပေါ ; BGN / PCGN : thibaw; Shan : သီႇ ပေႃႉ ; also known as Thibaw ) is a small town in Shan State , Myanmar on the banks of the Duthawadi . It is located on the Mandalay - Lashio railway line approx. 200 km northeast of Mandalay.
Local houses
Locals are building a bridge
Village elementary school
Attractions
- Shan Palace: From 1953 to 1962 the Shan Crown Prince and later Shan Prince Sao Kya Seng lived here with Shan Mahadevi (heavenly princess), the Austrian Inge Eberhard , a forester's daughter from Carinthia , whom he had met in the USA . The prince was abducted and probably murdered by the Burmese military dictatorship under General Ne Win , which took power on March 2, 1962.
- Maha Nanda Kantha monastery with bamboo Buddha statue
- Mahamyatmuni Pagoda
- The place is the starting point for trekking tours to Palaung and Shandörfern.
Shan princes of Hsipaw
- Sao Hswe Kya (1788-1809)
- Sao Hkun Hkwi (1809–1843)
- Sao Hkun Paw (1843-1853)
- Sao Kya Htun (1853–1866)
- Sao Kya Hkeng (1866-1881)
- unknown (1881–1886)
- Sao Hkun Saing (1886–1902)
- (Sir) Sao Khe (1902–1928)
- Sao On Kya (1928-1959)
- Sao Kya Seng (1959–1962)
literature
- Inge Sargent : Twilight over Burma: My life as a Shan princess. Zurich 2006.
- Christina Schmidt: Trapped in someone else's life . In: chrismon plus 2/2016. ISSN 1619-6384, pp. 26-32.
- James George Scott (1911): Thibaw. In Hugh Chisholm (Ed.) Encyclopædia Britannica , Volume 26 (11th Edition). Cambridge University Press , pp. 846-847.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burma: The sufferings of the "princess" from Carinthia. In: diePresse.com. October 3, 2007, accessed December 19, 2017 .