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11 Facts About Mobye Narapati

1.

Mobye Narapati ended the seven years' war with Toungoo as soon as he came to power.

2.

Mobye Narapati controlled only a rump state, east of the Irrawaddy and north of Pagan.

3.

Mobye Narapati remained in Mobye even when his father was elected by the Ava court to become king of Ava in 1542.

4.

Mobye Narapati III inherited not only an ongoing war with Toungoo but an active Mohnyin-backed rebellion in Sagaing by Sithu Kyawhtin.

5.

Unable to fight two wars, Mobye Narapati III sued for peace with Toungoo, agreeing to cede all of Central Burma.

6.

Mobye Narapati was merely acknowledging the facts on the ground.

7.

Mobye Narapati's offer was accepted by King Tabinshwehti of Toungoo.

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8.

Mobye Narapati then tried to persuade Sithu Kyawhtin to come over to his side.

9.

Furthermore, they found it jarring that Mobye Narapati III belonged to the House of Hsipaw which bitterly fought against Mohnyin in the 1520s.

10.

Mobye Narapati was an average ruler but his cross river rival Sithu Kyawhtin proved to be an able ruler, who increasingly commanded more manpower.

11.

Mobye Narapati resisted for about a month but fled south to Pegu where he was given protection by King Bayinnaung.