Conventional Long Name: | Mongkung (Möngküng) |
Common Name: | Mongkung |
Nation: | the Shan States |
Subdivision: | State |
Year Start: | 1835 |
Event Start: | State founded |
Year End: | 1959 |
Event End: | Abdication of the last Saopha |
P1: | Hsenwi State |
S1: | Shan State |
Flag S1: | Flag of Shan State.svg |
Image Map Caption: | Möng Kung State in an Imperial Gazetteer of India map |
Stat Area1: | 2650 |
Stat Year1: | 1901 |
Stat Pop1: | 30482 |
Mongkung (also spelt Möngküng), also known as Maingkaing (Burmese: မိုင်းကိုင်), was a Shan state in what is today Burma. It belonged to the Eastern Division of the Southern Shan States. Its capital was Mong Kung, in the valley of the Nam Teng. The largest minority were Palaung people.
Mongkung state was founded in ancient times as Langkavadi. In 1835, after the British annexed Upper Burma and established their rule in the region, Mongkung had been formerly a feudatory state of Hsenwi.[1]
The rulers of Mongkung bore the title Myoza in 1835-54 and 1863–73; Saopha in 1854-63 and from 1873.[2]