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TENASSERIM

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 613 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TENASSERIM , a See also:

division of See also:Lower See also:Burma, bordering on See also:Siam. See also:Area, 36,076 sq. m. Pop. (1901) 1,159,558, including 38,269 Christians, the See also:great See also:majority of whom are Karens. The headquarters of the See also:commissioner are at See also:Moulmein. It is divided into six districts: See also:Toungoo, See also:Salween, That6n, See also:Amherst, See also:Tavoy and See also:Mergui. It formed the See also:tract See also:south of See also:Pegu conquered from Burma in 1826, which was for many years known as the Tenasserim See also:province. The See also:southern extremity of the division approaches the insular region of Malaysia, and it is fringed along its entire western See also:coast by a number of islands, forming in the See also:north the Moscos and in the south the Mergui See also:Archipelago. The eastern frontier is formed by a See also:mountain range 5000 ft. high, which acts as a See also:water-parting between the Tenasserim and the Siamese See also:river systems.

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