Pinya
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Pinya was the capital of the Kingdom of Pinya, located near Ava
, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
. It was the residence of a dynasty of six kings who ruled this part of central Myanmar from 1313 to 1364.
on 11 February 1313 (15th waxing of Tabaung 674 ME), and it was the capital of Pinya Kingdom until September 1364. The Pinya Kingdom and its cross-river rival, the Sagaing Kingdom
, founded in 1315, vied for supremacy in central Myanmar during that period. In 1364, both kingdoms were overrun by the invading Shan forces from China and they ceased to exist. The Ava Kingdom
rose to take their places.
Ava
Innwa is a city in the Mandalay Division of Burma , situated just to the south of Amarapura on the Ayeyarwady River. Its formal title is Ratanapura , which means City of Gems in Pali. The name Innwa means mouth of the lake, which comes from in , meaning lake, and wa , which means mouth...
, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
Myanmar
Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....
. It was the residence of a dynasty of six kings who ruled this part of central Myanmar from 1313 to 1364.
History
Pinya was founded by King ThihathuThihathu
Thihathu was a co-founder of Myinsaing Kingdom, and the founder of the Pinya Kingdom in today's central Burma . A former commander in Pagan Empire's military, Thihathu was the youngest and most ambitious of the Three Shan Brothers that founded Myinsaing Kingdom, which filled the void in central...
on 11 February 1313 (15th waxing of Tabaung 674 ME), and it was the capital of Pinya Kingdom until September 1364. The Pinya Kingdom and its cross-river rival, the Sagaing Kingdom
Sagaing Kingdom
The Sagaing Kingdom was a kingdom that ruled a part of central Burma from 1315 to 1364. The kingdom was the western half of the old Myinsaing Kingdom, which itself was one of many petty kingdoms that emerged after the fall of the Pagan Empire in 1287...
, founded in 1315, vied for supremacy in central Myanmar during that period. In 1364, both kingdoms were overrun by the invading Shan forces from China and they ceased to exist. The Ava Kingdom
Ava Kingdom
The Ava Kingdom was the dominant kingdom that ruled upper Burma from 1364 to 1555. Founded in 1364, the kingdom was the successor state to the petty kingdoms that had ruled central Burma since the collapse of Pagan Empire in the late 13th century...
rose to take their places.