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The old name of the city, Martaban, came to mean 'jar' in several varieties of Arabic, and internationally for the large ceramic jars that were characteristic of the city's exports. In
Egyptian Arabic, by metathesis, the word has changed to become batraman, and refers to any glass or ceramic jar.
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The ancient city was called
Sampanago (Campа̄nа̄ga, lit. City of Serpents) or Puñjaluin in the Mon language. It may also be referred to within the context of Muttama-Dhañyawaddy or Sampanago-Lakunbyin as a roughly 45 kilometer stretch or settlements along the
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Taungoo captured the fortified city, and utterly destroyed it, forever relegating it back to a backwater. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, Martaban was a strategic spot in a series of wars fought between
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Rudyard
Kipling refers to Martaban in his poem "In the Neolithic Age": "And the crimes of Clapham chaste in Martaban," suggesting he perceived it to be a place where immoral behavior was tolerated.
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reconquered the city. Though it was no longer the capital, the city remained an important trading port from the 14th century to the early 16th century.
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of 1824–1826, but returned to
Burmese administration after the war. It became the border town however as the entire Tenasserim coast from
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based out of
Martaban. The city was the capital of a Mon-speaking kingdom from 1287 to 1364. Nominally it was a vassal state of the Thai
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Serpents" and Muttama (Martaban)". In Revire, Nicholas; Murphy, Stephen (eds.).
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flows through the town into the Bay of
Martaban. The town's location is adjacent to the confluence of five rivers – the Salween, the
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From the 2nd century BCE to the 15th century CE, Martaban was an important trading port. The historic
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