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| Toungoo |
or Taungu (both: toung´g ´, toung´´) (KEY) , town, S Myanmar, on the Sittoung River. It is a railway junction. From the late 14th cent. it was the center of one of the three chief states of Myanmar; in the late 16th cent., under the Pagan kings, it preceded Bago as the capital of a unified Burmese kingdom. |
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