History of Rakhine

ethnic group

Arakan Kingdom

Arakan ( or ; , ), formerly romanized as Aracan, is the historical geographical name for the northeastern coastal region of the Bay of Bengal, covering present-day Bangladesh and Myanmar. Historically known as "Arakan" for several centuries, the region is now generally associated with the geographically smaller Rakhine State, situated in western Myanmar. The people of the region were known as the Arakanese. When Burma gained independence from Britain in 1948, the Burmese part of the region was called Arakan State. The Burmese military junta changed its name to Rakhine State in 1989 – along wit

aspect of history

Wikimedia list article

Dhanyawaddy (; ) was the capital of the first Arakan Kingdom, located in what is now Northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. The name is a corruption of the Pali word Dhannavati, which means "large area or rice cultivation or the rice bowl". Like many of its successors, the Kingdom of Dhanyawadi was based on trade between the East (pre-Pagan Myanmar, Pyu, China, the Mons), and the West (Indian subcontinent). thumb|Mahamuni Buddha shrine which is now in Mandalay, Myanmar The ancient city of Dhanyawaddy is located 6 miles east of Kyauktaw, Rakhine State, on the right side of the Thay Chaung River at t

administrative division of Burma (1961–1964)

part of the Japanese invasion of Burma during World War II

Myanmar (Burmese) historical document

second Arakanese Kingdom in Western Myanmar