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Myeik

location_on Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar
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About Myeik

Myeik is a town in Tanintharyi Region in Myanmar, positioned in the extreme south of the united states on the coast of an island on the Andaman Sea. As of 2010 the expected population become over 209,000. The region inland from the city is a first-rate smuggling hall into Thailand. The Singkhon Pass, additionally known as the Maw-daung Pass, has an international pass-border checkpoint.

Myeik became the southernmost part of the Pagan Kingdom between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. After the Pagan Empire's fall apart in 1287, Myeik have become a part of successive Thai kingdoms from the past due thirteenth century to the middle of 18th century: first the Sukhothai Kingdom and later the Ayutthaya Kingdom. A short period of Bamar rule interrupted this between 1564-93.

From the sixteenth century on, the city turned into an vital seaport and trading middle with the Europeans, who might land at Myeik, tour upriver to Tanintharyi after which pass the mountains to attain Ayutthaya. The French officer Chevalier de Beauregard changed into made Governor of the town of Myeik after the Siam-England warfare that resulted in the English being expelled from Siam. De Beauregard changed into named Governor by Narai, the king of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, changing an Englishman, Samuel White. The French had been then expelled from Myeik following the Siamese revolution of 1688.

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