Bagan Myanmar

Bagan, Myanmar

Bagan is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Burma also called Myanmar. The city was the capital of the Kingdom of Pagan from Ninth to Thirteenth century. This was the first Kingdom who unified the regions which later on constituted the modern Myanmar. The Kingdom was on its peaks between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. During that times, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and montasaries were built in the Bagan  plains alone, of which the remains of over 2200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day.

Hisotry

According to the Burmese chronicles, Bagan was founded in the second century CE, and fortified in 849 CE by King Pyinbya, 34th successor of the founder of early Bagan. From 1044 to 1287, Bagan was the capital as well as the political, economic and cultural nerve center of the Pagan Empire.