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Place of Birth: Thayetmyo, Magway Region, Myanmar
About Swa Saw Ke
- Mingyi Swa Saw Ke (Burmese: ???????? ?????????, pronounced [m?´?d?à swà s?` k?´]; also spelled ????????, Minkyiswasawke or Swasawke; 1330–1400) was king of Ava from 1367 to 1400.
- He reestablished central authority in Upper Myanmar (Burma) for the first time since the fall of the Pagan Empire in the 1280s.
- He essentially founded the Ava Kingdom that would dominate Upper Burma for the next two centuries. When he was elected by the ministers to succeed King Thado Minbya, Swa took over a small kingdom barely three years old, and one that still faced several external and internal threats.
- In the north, he successfully fought off the Maw raids into Upper Burma, a longstanding problem since the waning days of Sagaing and Pinya kingdoms.
- He maintained friendly relations with Lan Na in the east, and Arakan in the west, placing his nominees on the Arakense throne between 1373 and 1385.
- In the south, he brought semi-independent kingdoms of Toungoo (Taungoo) and Prome (Pyay) firmly into Ava's orbit.
- But his attempts to extend control farther south touched off the Forty Years' War (1385–1424) between Ava and Pegu.
- After three defeats, Swa had to agree to a truce with King Razadarit of Pegu in 1391. For the most part, his long reign was peaceful.
- In contrast to the short reigns by various kings since the fall of Pagan, Swa's 32-year reign brought much needed stability to Upper Burma.
- He redeveloped the economy of the kingdom by repairing the irrigation system, and reclaiming much of the arable land which had lapsed into wilderness for nearly a century as the result of the Mongol invasions and repeated Maw raids.
- Under Swa's leadership, Upper Burma centered in Ava, finally achieved stability it had lacked for much of the past hundred years.
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