Bhamo

Bhamo, or Man Maw, was a Shan state on the Ayeyarwady in northern Burma, near Yunnan. A chronicle records that ministers from Möng Mit governed it from 1202.

In 1470 it was granted to a son of the Möng Mit saopha; its Burma–China trade made it a prize contested by neighbouring powers. Its saopha encouraged a Chinese invasion of Burma in 1668, leading to Burmese occupation from 1669 to 1685. Ava occupied it again from 1767 to 1770 and annexed it in 1772.