Seiktein

Town in Mandalay Region, Burma
Seiktein
Seiktain, Seikhtain
Town
21°03′N 95°15′E / 21.050°N 95.250°E / 21.050; 95.250
Country Burma
RegionMandalay Region
DistrictMyingyan
TownshipKyaukpadaung
Time zoneUTC+6.30 (GMT+6:30)

Seiktein[1] is a town in Mandalay Region in Central Myanmar. It lies just north of Mount Popa, on the Kyaukpadaung–Taungtha road.[2] The town is in two parts, Seiktein North and Seiktein South along the road.[3]

Notable citizens

  • Asaw, Queen of Uzana and mother of Narathihapate and Tayabya.[4][5]

Notes

  1. ^ "Seiktein (Approved)" Seiktein at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  2. ^ "Map of Mandalay Division" Myanmar's Net
  3. ^ "Kyaukpadaung Township, Mandalay Division"[permanent dead link] map ID:MIMU154_Kyaukpadaung_Township_100111, created: 11 January 2010, Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU)
  4. ^ Taw Sein Ko, and Forchhammer, Emanuel (1899) Inscriptions of Pagan, Pinya and Ava Archaeological Survey of India, Superintendent, Government Printing, Rangoon, Burma, page 71, note, OCLC 5131889
  5. ^ Furnivall, J. S. (1911) "Matriarchal Vestiges in Burma" The Journal of the Burma Research Society 1: pp. 15–30, page 21
  • "Seiktein Map — Satellite Images of Seiktein" Maplandia World Gazetteer
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Mandalay Region
Capital: Mandalay
Kyaukse District

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