Bagan Kingdom

Overview

The Pagan kingdom, also called Bagan Empire (ပုဂံဧကရာဇ်နိုင်ငံတော်) or the First Burmese Empire, was the first Burmese kingdom to unify the regions that would later constitute modern-day Myanmar. Its classical names are Arimaddanapura and Tampadīpa. Pagan's 250-year rule over the Irrawaddy valley and its periphery laid the foundation for the ascent of Burmese language and culture, the spread of Bamar ethnicity in Upper Myanmar, and the growth of Theravada Buddhism in Myanmar and in mainland Southeast Asia.

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Borders & accuracy

A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.

• SOURCEreconstructed from Natural Earth country boundaries
• DETAILreconstructed-clipped-country
• SNAPSHOT1200
• POLITY TYPEtributary

Wars of this empire3

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

• Pagan-Khmer Conflicts1100–1300
  Significant
• Peguan-Burmese Conflict1280–1390
  Regional · 300K dead
• Battle of Vochan1277
  Regional