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• Yangon: Yangon was founded as Dagon in the 6th century AD by the Mon, who dominated the present day Lower Burma at that time. Dagon was a small fishing village centered about the Shwedagon Pagoda.: In 1755, King Alaungpaya(the founder of Kon-Baung Dynasty) accomplished his military campaign to reunite the whole of Myanmar, following his conquest of Dagon. At that time, Dagon was no more than a village or a small town. The king realized that the conquest of Dagon implied a total victory over Lower Myanmar because of its strategic location. Accordingly, he renamed the town Yangon that literally means end of strife. Afterwards, the town went by the name of Yangon for nearly a century. In 1851, however, the British annexation of Yangon resulted in getting the town refounded. And the name also was changed to Rangoon. Since then, the city has been designated as the capital of Myanmar and known of the world as Rangoon. The new city was modeled and constructed by Lieutenant Fraser, a British Officer of the Engineering Corps who, it was believed, also designed and constructed Singapore. The city was laid out on a chessboard pattern with wide roads running North to South and East to West. Now..Yangon is the business city and gateway to Myanmar by sea and by air. ( Colonial Yangon:....) The British Empire sized Yangon and all all of Lower Myanmar in the Second Anglo-Burmese War of 1952 and the subsequencetly transformed Yangon into the commercial and political hub of British Burma.Base on the designed by army engineer Lt.Fraser, the British constructed a new city on a grid plan on delta land, bounded to east by Pazundaung Creek and to the south and west by the Yangon River. By the 1890s Yangon's incresing population and commerence gave birth to prosperous residential suburbs to the north of royal lake ( Kandawgyi ) and Inya Lake .The British also established hospitels including Yangon General Hospital and collage including Yangon University. Colonial Yangon , with its spacious parks and lakes and mix of modern building and traditional wooden architecture, was known as the " Garden City of the East " By the early 20 century , Yangon had public services and infranstructure on par with London. Yangon incurred heavy damaged during World War II .

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