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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 683 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOMEIN , the Burmese name of the See also:

Chinese See also:city Teng-yuehchow, in the S.W. of the See also:province of Yunnan, See also:China. It was opened to See also:foreign See also:trade by the Burmese See also:Convention of 1897, but so far no See also:advantage has been taken of the permission. It lies See also:close to the Burmese frontier and on the old trade route from See also:Bhamo to Yunnan, but its importance as an outpost of the See also:British See also:Empire is See also:political rather than commercial. The distance from Teng-yueh to Bhamo by the usual trade route is 16o m., and is generally traversed by See also:pack-animals in seven See also:MOMMSEN 683 or eight days. In a straight See also:line the two towns are only 8o m. apart. Near Momein and within its See also:jurisdiction is the frontier See also:town of Manwyne, where A. R. Margary was assassinated in See also:January 1875.

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