Polity · 1502 CE – 1761 CE

First Toungoo Empire

တောင်ငူ-ဟံသာဝတီခေတ်

Peak recorded area
1,477,860 km²
1579 CE
Rulers on record
4
from 1510 CE
Sources cited
2
see all

Overview

The First Toungoo Empire ( TOW-NG oo ;Burmese: တောင်ငူခေတ်,, lit. "Toungoo Period"; also known as the Second Burmese Empire in traditional historiography, or simply the Taungoo dynasty was the dominant power in mainland Southeast Asia in the second half of the 16th century.

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Territory

23 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.

1.5M km²01502 CE1761 CE

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Rulers

4 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.

  1. MingyinyoHead of State1510 CE – 1530 CE
  2. TabinshwehtiHead of State1530 CE – 1550 CE
  3. BayinnaungHead of State1550 CE – 1581 CE
  4. Nanda BayinHead of State1581 CE – 1599 CE

Language & currency

Official & national languages
Burmese

Sources

Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.

  • Cliopatria

    Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).

  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia contributors. Article lead sections, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

    CC BY-SA 4.0

First Toungoo Empire is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.

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