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The kingdom of Pagan, the "charter polity" [103] of Myanmar, had a lasting impact on Burmese history and the history of mainland Southeast Asia. The success and longevity of Pagan's dominance over the Irrawaddy valley enabled the ascent of Burmese language and culture, and the spread of Bamar ethnicity in Upper Myanmar and laid the foundation ...
To display them, a small museum was built in 1904 to the north of the Ananda Temple, where ancient stone inscriptions were displayed. [6] On October 14, 1994, the chairman of the National Peace and Development Council, General Than Shwe, who visited Bagan region , guided the construction of a large museum in Bagan. The museum opened on April 17 ...
Bagan (Burmese: ပုဂံ; MLCTS: pu.gam, IPA: [bəɡàɰ̃]; formerly Pagan) is an ancient city and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. [1] From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Pagan Kingdom, the first kingdom that unified the regions that would later constitute Myanmar.
Blot-Sweyn, leader of the Swedish pagan renaissance in the 11th century; Coifi, priest of the temple at Goodmanham in the Kingdom of Northumbria in 627; Dagalaifus, pagan of Germanic descent who served as consul in 366; Eadbald (died 640), king of Kent; Eanfrith (590–634), king of Bernicia from 633 to 634 who reverted to paganism after ...
The Burman kings of Pagan claimed descent from the kings of Sri Ksetra and Tagaung as far back as 850 BCE—a claim dismissed by most modern scholars. [18] [21] Pyu settlements remained in Upper Burma for the next three centuries but the Pyu gradually were absorbed and assimilated into the expanding Pagan Empire. The Pyu language still existed ...
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The restoration of paganism from Julian until Valens was a brief period, from 361 until 375, of relative tolerance towards pagans in the Roman Empire. In the late Roman Empire , it was preceded by a period of persecutions under Emperor Constantius II and was followed by those of Emperor Gratian .
Pagan Empire, estimated by GE Harvey. By the mid-1050s, Anawrahta's reforms had turned Pagan into a regional power, and he looked to expand. Over the next ten years, he founded the Pagan Empire, the Irrawaddy valley at the core, surrounded by tributary kingdoms. [15] Estimates of the extent of his empire vary greatly.