The Mon name for Mawlamyine, means "damaged eye.". A Mon king was said to have lost his powerful eye in Mawlamyine. The Burmese name "Mawlamyine" is believed to be a Burmese corruption of the Mon name.
History
Moulmein and the mouth of the Thanlwin River in the early 1900s.
Mawlamyine was the first capital of British Burma between 1826 and 1852 after the Tanintharyi (Tenassarim) coast, along with Arakan, was
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