Sagara Ancient City

႐ွင္​ဇလြန္​းဘုရား

ပ်ဴလူမ်ိဳးတို႔၏ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ေဟာင္းအျဖစ္ယူဆၾကၿပီးေ႐ွးနန္းေတာ္ရာေနရာ ေျမသားၿမိဳ႕႐ိုးမ်ား အ႐ိုးအိုးကုန္းမ်ားရိွၿပီးသုေတသနျပဳလုပ္သင့္ေသာေနရာျဖစ္ပါသည္

As the ancient site, Sagara City, old Dawei, which is approx 6 miles north of present city, has so many traces of Pyu Culture, it was recognized as one of the province capital in ancient Pyu era. From the 11th to 13th centuries, Dawei was part of the Pagan Empire. From 1287 to 1564, Dawei became part of the Sukhothai Kingdom and its successor Ayutthaya Kingdom (Siam). From 1564 to 1594, Dawei was part of the Toungoo Kingdom of Burma. Siam temporarily regained the city between 1594 and 1614. From 1614 to the 1740s, Dawei was the southernmost city under Burmese authority, and was defended by a Burmese garrison. In the late-1740s, during the Burmese civil war of 1740–1757, Dawei, along with the northern Tenasserim coast, was taken over by Siam. Burma regained the city in 1760, and extended its control over the entire Tenasserim coast in 1765. The Tenasserim coast was ceded to the British after the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826). After independence in 1948, the city became part of the Tenasserim Division, which also included today's Mon State. In 1974, Mon State was carved out of Tenasserim and Dawei became the capital of the truncated division. In 1989, the city's English name was changed from Tavoy to Dawei, and Tenasserim became Tanintharyi.