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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 233 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LASHIO , the headquarters of the See also:

superintendent, See also:northern Shan States, See also:Burma, situated in 22° 56' N. and 970 45' E. at an See also:altitude of 3100 ft., on a See also:low See also:spur overlooking the valley of the Nam Yao. It is the See also:present See also:terminus of the See also:Mandalay-Kun See also:Long railway and of the See also:government See also:cart road from Mandalay, from which it is 178 m. distant. It consists of the See also:European station, with See also:court See also:house and quarters for the See also:civil See also:officers; the military See also:police See also:post, the headquarters of the Lashio See also:battalion of military police; the native station, in which the various nationalities, See also:Shans, Burmans, See also:Hindus and Mahommedans, are divided into See also:separate quarters, with reserves for government servants and for the temporary residences of the five sawbwas of the northern Shan States; and a See also:bazaar. Under Burmese See also:rule Lashio was also the centre of authority for the northern Shan States, but the Burmese post in the valley was See also:close to the Nam Yao, in an old See also:Chinese fortified See also:camp. The Lashio valley was formerly very populous; but a See also:rebellion, started by the sawbwa of Hsenwi, about ten years before the See also:British occupation, ruined it, and it is only slowly approaching the prosperity it formerly enjoyed; pop. (1901) 2565. The See also:annual rainfall averages 54 in.

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