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MAWKMAI (Burmese Maukme)

MAWKMAI (Burmese Maukme) , one of the largest states in the eastern See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the See also:

SOUTHERN

southern Shan States of See also:

BURMA

Burma. It lies approximately between 19° 30' and 20° 30' N. and 97° 30' and 98° 15' E., and has an See also:

AREA

area of 2,787 sq. m. The central portion of the See also:

state consists of a wide See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain well watered and under See also:

rice cultivation. The See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest is chiefly hills in ranges See also:

RUNNING

running See also:

north and See also:

south. There is a See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

DEAL

deal of See also:

TEAK

teak in the state, but it has been ruinously worked. The sawbwa now See also:

WORKS

works as See also:

CON

con-tractor for See also:

government, which takes one-third of the See also:

NET

net profits. Rice is the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop, but much See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco of good quality is grown in the Langko See also:

DISTRICT

district on the Tang See also:

RIVER

river. There is also a See also:

GREAT

great deal of See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle-breeding. The See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population in 1901 was 29,454, over two-thirds of whom were See also:

SHANS

Shans and the See also:

REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder Taungthu, Burmese, Yangsek and Red Karens. The See also:

capital, MAWKMAI, stands in a See also:

FINE

fine rice plain in 20° 9' N. and 97° 25' E. It had about 150 houses when it first submitted in 1887, but was burnt out by the Red Karens in the following See also:

YEAR

year. It has since recovered.

There are very fine See also:

orange groves a few See also:

MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles south of the See also:

TOWN

town at Kantu-awn, called Kadugate by the Burmese.

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