Wuntho

Wuntho, called Wying Hsö in Shan, was a Shan state in Upper Burma, lying midway between the Ayeyarwady and Chindwin rivers. Its Shan name means city of the tiger, and local chronicles trace a line of saopha rulers back to the sixth century.

In 1337 the saopha Hso Ngam Möng Hpa succeeded his brother and ruled from Wuntho. It was drawn into the Burmese lowland wars: in 1555 its governor was posted to Taze to resist Bayinnaung's conquest of Upper Burma. Wuntho kept its own line of saophas under Burmese overlordship into the nineteenth century.