The
history of Yangon is intertwined with the history of the
Shwedagon Pagoda. From the beginning of the building of the
Shwedagon Pagoda by King Okkalapa over 2500 years ago, Yangon
was situated with the name as Dagon. The luminous Shwedagon
Pagoda where the relics of four Buddhas were enshrined is the
land mark visible from miles around. A visit to Yangon is
incomplete without a visit to Shwedagon. According to the
Historical evidences, in the 16th century travellers from the
west wrote about Dagon, with its golden pagoda, but it was not a
city until 1755. King Alaungpaya, founder of the Third Myanmar
Empire, Konbaung Dynasty, to accomplish to reunite the whole of
lower Myanmar, conquered Dagon.
Actually,
the pattern came from Dr. William Montgomery, Superintendent
Surgeon of the British Troops. He proposed a town with a
checkered pattern of street based on a road which ran along the
Strand. And Lieutenant Fraser followed his plan and modified it.
Lt.Fraser's plan comprised three kinds of roads. Roads running
west to East were broad roads 160 feet wide. Roads running south
consisted of two small 30 feet wide roads, one medium-sized road
50 feet wide, two more 35 feet wide roads and then one broad 100
feet wide road. This order was repeated from West to East. The
smaller roads were numbered; with the medium and broad roads
were given names, some for eminent of that time.
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History of Yangon
At that time, it was just a fishing village.He built a new city of Yangon at a half-mile west of the old Dagon on 2 May 1755. The king gave the name"Yangon".It means 'end of strife' or 'no more foe left' The city with a circumference of two miles was completed in seven-day' period. Referring to present landmarks, Sule Pagoda can be marked as the northern border of king Alaungpaya's Yangon City, while Theinbyu Street, Yangon River and 30th Street were the eastern, southern and western border respectively. Actually it was named in order to organize the whole Mon area centered on Yangon. Yangon becomes an important seaport after the destruction of Mon Area Thanlyin (Syriam), which located across the Bago River bank of Yangon in 1756. The following years Yangon assumed its commercial role as the principle port of Myanmar. In 1841 the city was virtually destroyed by fire and the rebuilt town again suffered extensive damage during the Second Anglo-Myanmar war in 1852. After the end of the war Yangon came into the hands of the British and it was anglicized to Rangoon and became the political metropolis. The city was modeled and reconstructed by Lieutenant Fraser, a British Officer of the Engineering Crops who designed and constructed Singapore. The city was laid out as a square pattern with wide roads running from North to South and From East to West.
However Yangon only became the capital in 1885 when the British completed the conquest of upper Myanmar. Mandalay's short period as the city of the last Myanmar Kingdom ended. During World War II Yangon, the model city in Southeast Asia, suffered great damage. Its buildings, roads and drainage systems were destroyed. Yangon became City of Myanmar when she got Independence on 4 January 1948. Since then the population of the city has grown and to meet the need for housing, Yangon city has been expended to cover 33 townships with an area of 266 square miles and has a population of nearly six million. Wherever one may be in Yangon, in the busy town center, in the new towns of the east, in the industrial zone of the west, in the paddy fields of the north, the golden form of the Shwedagon Pagoda will be seen on the skyline rising above the foliage of the tropical trees, old colonial buildings, and new modern buildings. Evergreen and cool with lush tropical trees, shady parks and beautiful lakes, Yangon has earned the name of the Garden City of the East. |
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