Conventional Long Name: | Kyawkku Hsiwan |
Common Name: | Kyawkku |
Nation: | the Shan States |
Subdivision: | State |
Year Start: | c. 1600 |
Event Start: | Kyawkku Hsiwan state founded |
Year End: | 1922 |
Event End: | Merged with Poila State |
P1: | Kingdom of Burma |
S1: | Shan State |
Flag S1: | Flag of Shan State.svg |
Image Map Caption: | Kyawkku State in a map of the Shan States |
Stat Area1: | 243 |
Stat Year1: | 1901 Census of India |
Stat Pop1: | 4771 |
Kyawkku (also known as Kyawkku Hsiwan or Kyakku) was a Shan state in the Myelat region of what is today Burma. Its capital was the village of Kyawkku (Myinkyado) which had 344 inhabitants in 1901.
Kyawkku was founded around 1600 CE. It was a tributary of Burma until 1887, when the Shan states submitted to British rule after the fall of the Konbaung dynasty. The state was merged with Poila in 1922.[1]
The title of Kyawkku's rulers was Ngwegunhmu.[2]