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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Tharrawaddy

Britannica 11th

THARRAWADDY, a town and district in the Pegu division of Lower Burma. The town has a station on the railway, 68 m. N.W. from Rangoon. Pop. (1901) 164.3. The district has an area of 2851 sq. m. The Pegu Yoma range separates it from Toungoo district, and forms t ...

Vol. 26, pp. 727-727 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

Thargelia

Britannica 11th

... d as a charm to avert failure of the crops, were afterwards regarded as forming THARRAWADDY— THASOS part of a supplicatory service. On the second day choruses of men and boys took part in musical contests, the prize for which was a tripod. Further, on this day ...

Vol. 26, pp. 726-727 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0