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The Pagan Kingdom (Burmese: ပုဂံပြည်, pronounced [bəɡàɰ̃ kʰɪʔ], lit. ' Bagan State '; also known as the Pagan dynasty; also Romanized Bagan) was the first Burmese kingdom to unify the regions that would later constitute modern-day Myanmar.
A marble statue of Jupiter, king of the Roman gods. Paganism (from Latin pāgānus 'rural', 'rustic', later 'civilian') is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, [1] or ethnic religions other than Judaism.
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.
Aoric, Gothic pagan; Arbogast (died 394), Frankish general who tried to revive paganism in the Roman Empire; Ariaric, Gothic pagan; Arwald (died 686), last pagan ruler of the Isle of Wight, or any Anglo-Saxon kingdom; Atharid, Gothic pagan; Audofleda, pagan Gothic queen until her marriage
The Early Pagan Kingdom (Burmese: ခေတ်ဦး ပုဂံ ပြည်) was a city-state that existed in the first millennium CE before the emergence of the Pagan Empire in the mid 11th century. The Burmese chronicles state that the "kingdom" was founded in the second century CE.
In his early life, Kyansittha was a popular and successful general who led Anawrahta's major military campaigns that founded the Pagan Empire. He was exiled twice in the 1070s and 1080s for his affair with Queen Manisanda. Kyansittha ascended to the Pagan throne in 1084 after suppressing a major Mon rebellion that killed King Saw Lu. [2]
Anti-pagan laws were established and continued on after Theodosius I until the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. Arcadius , Honorius , Theodosius II , Marcian and Leo I reiterated the bans on pagan sacrifices and divination and increased the penalties.
Pagan was one of several competing city-states until the late 10th century when it grew in authority and grandeur. [8] Two hundred years after Pyinbya founded Pagan, his great-grandson Anawrahta went on to create the Pagan Empire, the first ever unification of the Irrawaddy valley and its periphery.