Ava Kingdom
| Kingdom of Ava | ||||||||||||||
| အင်းဝခေတ် | ||||||||||||||
| Kingdom Vassal of the Shan States (1527–1555) |
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 Ava c. 1450
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| Capital | Sagaing, Pinya, Ava (Inwa) | |||||||||||||
| Languages | Burmese, Shan | |||||||||||||
| Religion | Theravada Buddhism | |||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | |||||||||||||
| King | ||||||||||||||
| • | 1364–1367 | Thado Minbya | ||||||||||||
| • | 1367–1400 | Swa Saw Ke | ||||||||||||
| • | 1400–1422 | Minkhaung I | ||||||||||||
| • | 1426–1439 | Mohnyin Thado | ||||||||||||
| • | 1527–1542 | Thohanbwa | ||||||||||||
| Legislature | Hluttaw | |||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||
| • | Founding of kingdom | April 1364 | ||||||||||||
| • | Forty Years' War | 1385–1424 | ||||||||||||
| • | Mohnyin Dynasty | 1426 | ||||||||||||
| • | Secession of vassals | 1480–1527 | ||||||||||||
| • | Shan Dynasty | 1527–1555 | ||||||||||||
| • | Fall of kingdom | 22 January 1555 | ||||||||||||
| Currency | kyat | |||||||||||||
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The Ava Kingdom (Burmese: အင်းဝခေတ်, pronounced: [ʔɪ́ɴwa̰ kʰɪʔ]) was the dominant kingdom that ruled upper Burma (Myanmar) from 1364 to 1555. Founded in 1364, the kingdom was the successor state to the petty kingdoms of Myinsaing, Pinya and Sagaing that had ruled central Burma since the collapse of the Pagan Kingdom in the late 13th century.
Like the small kingdoms that preceded it, Ava was led by Bamarised Shan kings who claimed descent from the kings of Pagan.
The kingdom was founded by Thado Minbya in 1364 following the collapse of the Sagaing and Pinya Kingdoms due to raids by the Shan States to the north. In its first years of existence, Ava, which viewed itself as the rightful successor to the Pagan Kingdom, tried to reassemble the former empire by waging constant wars against the Mon Hanthawaddy Kingdom in the south, the Shan States in the north and east, and Rakhine State in the west.
While it was able to hold Taungoo and some peripheral Shan States (Kalaymyo, Mohnyin, Mogaung and Hsipaw) within its fold at the peak of its power, Ava failed to reconquer the rest. The Forty Years' War (1385–1424) with Hanthawaddy left Ava exhausted. From the 1420s to early 1480s, Ava regularly faced rebellions in its vassal regions whenever a new king came to power. In the 1480s and 1490s, the Prome Kingdom in the south and the Shan states under Ava sway in the north broke away, and Taungoo became as powerful as its nominal overlord Ava. In 1510, Taungoo also broke away.
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