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Toungoo or Taungu , 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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Taungoo, Burma Ketumadi ‘Hill Spur’. It was founded in 1510 and was the original seat of the Toungoo dynasty (also spelt Taungu) for the next 30 years.

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