Conventional Long Name: | Monghsu (Mönghsu) |
Common Name: | Mönghsu |
Nation: | the Shan States in personal union with Mongsang |
Subdivision: | State |
Year Start: | 1857 |
Event Start: | State founded |
Year End: | 1959 |
Event End: | Abdication of the last Myoza |
P1: | Hsenwi State |
S1: | Shan State |
Flag S1: | Flag of Shan State.svg |
Image Map Caption: | Möng Hsu State in an Imperial Gazetteer of India map |
Stat Area1: | 425 |
Stat Year1: | 1901 |
Stat Pop1: | 17480 |
Monghsu or Maingshu was a Shan state in what is today Burma. It belonged to the Eastern Division of the Southern Shan States. The main river in the area was the Nam Pang.[1]
Monghsu became independent from Hsenwi in 1857 under a personal union with the neighbouring state of Mongsang. It was a tributary of Burma until 1887, when the Shan states submitted to British rule after the fall of the Konbaung dynasty. The residence of the Myoza was at Mong Hsu.[2]
The rulers of Monghsu/Möngsang bore the title of Myoza, "duke" or chief of town.[3]