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Pyu City-States

200 BC – 1050
Sovereign stateAsia

Tibeto-Burman Buddhist city-states in Upper Burma, the earliest attested polities of Myanmar and UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Fatally weakened by Nanzhao raids, most notably the 832 CE sack of Halingyi in which 3,000 Pyu were taken prisoner; the remaining city-states were gradually absorbed by Burman migrants over the following decades, with no Pyu polity surviving into the 10th century.

Borders in 300 · drawn from 2 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Pyu City-States — the shape you scrub through changes in 200 BC · 300.

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