Mon people were one of the earliest to reside in Southeast Asia, and were responsible for the spread of Theravada Buddhism in Mainland Southeast Asia.
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20 Facts About Mon people
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The Mon people are regarded as a large exporter of Southeast Asian culture.
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The Mon people adopted the Pallava alphabet and the oldest form of the Mon people script was found in a cave in modern Saraburi dating around 550 CE.
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The Mon people were killed in wars, transported as captives, or assimilated into new cultures.
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Mon people established himself in Mottama and was proclaimed king of the Mon.
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Mon people's Hanthawaddy Kingdom was a prosperous period for the Mon in both power and culture.
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The Mon people were consolidated under King Rajathiraj, who successfully fended off invasions by the Ava Kingdom.
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The collapse of Mon people power propagated waves of migration into Siam, where they were permitted to live in the city of Ayutthaya.
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The Mon people rebelled in 1661 but the rebellion was put down by King Pye Min.
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Mon people refugees were granted residence in western Siam by the Siamese king.
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Finally, to restore their former Hanthawaddy Kingdom, the Mon rebelled again at Bago in 1740 with the help of the Gwe Shan people.
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The Mon people were largely massacred, encouraging a large migration to Siam and Lanna.
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The Mon people rebelled at Dagon in the reign of Hsinbyushin of the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma and the city was razed to the ground.
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King Taksin himself was a Sino-Mon people descent and his maternal grandmother was a sister to chief of Siam's Mon people community.
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Under Burman rule, the Mon people had been massacred after they lost their kingdom and many sought asylum in the Thai Kingdom.
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The Mon people language is one of the earliest documented vernacular languages of Mainland Southeast Asia.
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Symbol of the Mon people is the hongsa, a mythological water bird that is often illustrated as a swan.
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Mon people dances are usually played in a formal theater or sometimes in an informal district of any village.
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Loi Khamod festivalLuknoo festival Mon people Floating Boat festival Hongsa and Centipede Parade festival.
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Mon people women wear traditional shawl-like Sbai, known as Yat Toot in Mon people language, diagonally over the chest covering one shoulder with one end dropping behind the back.
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