Möng Hsat
Region in modern day Myanmar
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Möng Hsat was small state of the Shan States in what is today Burma.
| Möng Hsat | |||||||||
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| State of the Shan States | |||||||||
| 17th century–1959 | |||||||||
Möng Hsat in an Imperial Gazetteer of India map | |||||||||
| Capital | Monghsat | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• State founded | 17th century | ||||||||
• Abdication of the last ruler | 1959 | ||||||||
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History
It was a small dependency of Kengtung State[1] that had been a tract of land claimed by Möng Nai but annexed by Kengtung along with Möng Pu further to the north. The capital and residence of the ruler was Möng Hsat town.[2] Earlier, in 638 CE, the area had formed part of the Ngoenyang Kingdom,[3]: 245 which was centered in what is now Mae Sai District of Thailand.[4]
Little is known about this state except that its forests had been overexploited at the turn of the 20th century during British Rule in Burma.[5]
