Yenangyaung
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Yenangyaung Yenanchaung(ေရနံေခ်ာင္း) |
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 Yenangyaung
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| Coordinates: 20°27′29.74″N 94°52′23.45″E / 20.4582611°N 94.8731806°E | |
| Country |
 Burma
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| Division | Magway Division |
| District | Magway District |
| Township | Yenangyaung Township |
| Elevation | 200 m (650 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Urban | 46,000 |
| Time zone | +7 (UTC+7) |
Yenangyaung (Burmese: ရေနံချောင်း; literally "stream of oil") is a city in Myanmar, Magway Division. Yenangyaung is located in central Myanmar on the Irrawaddy River, 363 miles from Yangon. Yenangyaung is the fourth biggest city in Magway Division. There are Yenangyaung Degree College and Yenangyaung Government Technical Institute in Yenangyaung. No(1)Basic Education High School was one hundred years old in January 2015. A beautiful stream called Pinn Chaung flows in the north.
The city is divided into Fourteen main quarters.
There are many sub-quarters such as Shwe-bone Thar,Ngwe-bone Thar,Yenanthar,Ayesayti,Aungchan Thar, Bo Gone.etc.Myoma Market and Yadanar Market are at the center of the city.Industry Zone is located in the north part of Yenangyaung.
The principal product of Yenangyaung is Petroleum.It produces most of the oil and natural gas in Myanmar.Yenangyaung also produces a large quantity of edible oil as well as petroleum. Agriculture is also important.The major crops are sesame and groundnut.Other crops are onion,sunflower and beans.
For centuries, the dominant industry in the area has been petroleum. It began as an indigenous oil industry, with hand-dug wells; from 1755 onwards, early British soldier-diplomats began to note its existence. In 1795, Major Michael Symes described the indigenous industry as "the celebrated wells of Petroleum". The following year, when Captain Hiram Cox, the East India Company Resident in Rangoon, visited Yenangyaung, he recorded there were "520 wells registered by government".
The oil fields at Twingon and Beme, close to Yenangyaung, were in the hands of a hereditary corporation of 24 families, each headed by a twinzayo (တွင်းစားရိုး). In turn, these yo-ya families were headed by 18 men and 6 women twinzayos. The inheritance descended from male to male and from female to female. The word twinzayo is derived from twin meaning well, za, eater or one who derives income from property and yo which represents the hereditary lineal bloodline.
The twinzayo could arrange for wells to be dug on their behalf or could allocate well sites to others. In pre-colonial times, these individual well owners, known as twinza were usually relatives of the twinzayo and paid a small monthly rental for their site. The twingyimin, the elected head of the twinzayo corporation controlled the fields, and though a twinzayo could choose the site of a well, digging could not commence until site approval by the twingyimin. During British colonial rule, the hereditary rights of the twinzayo were recognized in the Executive Instructions of 1893.
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