LASHIO

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LASHIO , the headquarters of the superintendent, northern Shan States, Burma, situated in 22 56' N. and 970 45' E. at an altitude of 3100 ft., on a low spur overlooking the valley of the Nam Yao. It is the present terminus of the Mandalay-Kun

Long

LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

railway and of the government cart road from Mandalay, from which it is 178 m. distant. It consists of the European station, with

court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

and quarters for the civil

officers

OFFICERS

; the military

police

POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

post, the headquarters of the Lashio battalion of military

police

POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

; the native station, in which the various nationalities, Shans, Burmans, Hindus and Mahommedans, are divided into

separate

SEPARATE

quarters, with reserves for government servants and for the temporary residences of the five sawbwas of the northern Shan States; and a bazaar. Under Burmese

rule

RULE

Lashio was also the centre of authority for the northern Shan States, but the Burmese post in the valley was close to the Nam Yao, in an old Chinese fortified camp. The Lashio valley was formerly very populous; but a rebellion, started by the sawbwa of Hsenwi, about ten years before the British occupation, ruined it, and it is only slowly approaching the prosperity it formerly enjoyed; pop. (1901) 2565. The annual rainfall averages 54 in. The

average

AVERAGE

maximum temperature is 8o 5 and the

average

AVERAGE

minimum 55.5

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