Namshan
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Namshan also spelt Namhsan, is the capital of Tawngpeng
, a Palaung substate in northern Shan State
of Burma. The only Palaung kingdom in the Shan States, the people of the town are predominantly of the Ka-tur (Samlong) tribe. The people of the tribe are often referred to as the Golden Palaung (Shwe Palaung) because of the color of the belts that they wear, and thus their language is called Shwe
In Shwe, Namshan means trembling waters and the town is thought to be so named because it is situated on a marsh which gets flooded during heavy rains. In its heydey, during the 1920s and 1930s, the town prospered because of the presence of silver mines in the kingdom and because of the tea grown in the area. The tribe was heavily studied by the anthropologist Leslie Milne
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Tawngpeng
Tawngpeng is a district in Burma and was a Palaung state in the Northern Shan States prior to the de-recognition of independent Shan States by the military government of Burma in 1962. The capital of Tawngpeng is at Namshan.Tawngpeng is a center for tea production in the Shan States.....
, a Palaung substate in northern Shan State
Shan State
Shan State is a state of Burma . Shan State borders China to the north, Laos to the east, and Thailand to the south, and five administrative divisions of Burma in the west. Largest of the 14 administrative divisions by land area, Shan State covers 155,800 km², almost a quarter of the total...
of Burma. The only Palaung kingdom in the Shan States, the people of the town are predominantly of the Ka-tur (Samlong) tribe. The people of the tribe are often referred to as the Golden Palaung (Shwe Palaung) because of the color of the belts that they wear, and thus their language is called Shwe
In Shwe, Namshan means trembling waters and the town is thought to be so named because it is situated on a marsh which gets flooded during heavy rains. In its heydey, during the 1920s and 1930s, the town prospered because of the presence of silver mines in the kingdom and because of the tea grown in the area. The tribe was heavily studied by the anthropologist Leslie Milne
Leslie Milne (anthropologist)
Mary Lewis Harper Milne known as Leslie Milne was an English lady who traveled extensively and wrote about the ethnic peoples of the Shan State in Northern Burma...
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