Sagaing Kingdom
| Kingdom of Sagaing | ||||||||||
| စစ်ကိုင်း နေပြည်တော် | ||||||||||
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 Sagaing Kingdom c. 1350
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| Capital | Sagaing | |||||||||
| Languages |
Burmese (official) Shan |
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| Religion | Theravada Buddhism, Ari Buddhism, animism | |||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | |||||||||
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| • | 1315–27 | Saw Yun | ||||||||
| • | 1327–36 | Tarabya I | ||||||||
| • | 1339–49 | Kyaswa | ||||||||
| • | 1352–64 | Thihapate | ||||||||
| Legislature | Hluttaw | |||||||||
| Historical era | Warring states | |||||||||
| • | Pinya Kingdom founded | 7 February 1313 | ||||||||
| • | Sagaing autonomy proclaimed | 15 May 1315 | ||||||||
| • | Secession from Pinya |
1315–17 (de facto) 1325 (de jure) |
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| • | Court rule | 1336–50s | ||||||||
| • | Maw raids | 1356–64 | ||||||||
| • | Maw Sack of Sagaing | April 1364 | ||||||||
| • | Ava Kingdom founded | 26 February 1365 | ||||||||
| • | Saw Omma's rebellion | September 1367 | ||||||||
| Area | ||||||||||
| • | 1325 | 40,000 km² (15,444 sq mi) | ||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Myanmar
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The Sagaing Kingdom (Burmese: စစ်ကိုင်း နေပြည်တော်, [zəɡáɪɴ nèpjìdɔ̀]) was a small kingdom ruled by a junior branch of the Myinsaing dynasty from 1315 to 1365. Originally the northern province of Sagaing of the Pinya Kingdom, it became de facto independent after Prince Saw Yun successfully fought for autonomy from his father King Thihathu in 1315–17. Sagaing formally seceded from Pinya in 1325 after Thihathu's death.
The northern petty state stayed independent for the next four decades mainly due to Pinya's internal divisions. Sagaing itself was full of palace intrigues, and the court led by Nanda Pakyan came to control a string of weak monarchs from the mid-1330s to the 1350s. In the 1350s, Princess Soe Min successfully repaired Sagaing's long-strained relationship with Pinya in order to defend against the northern Shan state of Maw. Sagaing bore the brunt of repeated Maw invasions of Upper Myanmar (Burma) (1356–64). Maw forces broke through in 1364, sacking both capitals of Sagaing and Pinya in succession. In the wake of the latest Maw raid, Saw Yun's grandson Prince Thado Minbya seized both devastated capitals in 1364, and founded the Ava Kingdom in 1365.
Sagaing, like its bigger cousin Pinya, was a microcosm of the fractious small kingdoms period (1287–1555). The small kingdom is remembered in Burmese history as the polity that gave birth to Ava, the dominant power of Upper Myanmar from the 14th to 16th centuries.
At the end of the 13th century, Sagaing was the northernmost vassal state of Myinsaing, the polity that succeeded Pagan in Central Burma. The northern province included the Mu valley, one of the three main granaries of the Irrawaddy valley. To the north of Sagaing lay the Province of Zhengmian of the Mongol Empire—present-day northern Burma and southwestern Yunnan, which the Mongols had wrested away from the Pagan Empire since the 1280s. The Mongols launched another invasion in 1300–01 but could not break through and quit northern Burma altogether in 1303.
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