Pagan 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 empire4

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

• Mongol invasions of Burma1277–87
  World-changing
• Mongol invasion of Pagan (1287)1287
  Major conflict
• Pagan conquest of Thaton1057
  Significant
• Battle of Ngasaunggyan1277
  Significant