Donwun

Donwun lies north of Thaton in the Mon country of Lower Burma. Tradition remembers it as the birthplace of Wareru, who seized Martaban and founded a kingdom that later became known as Hanthawaddy. In the fourteenth century King Binnya U briefly made Donwun his capital after leaving Martaban amid conflict with Siam. The court later moved to Pegu in 1369. Donwun's short time as a royal seat links this inland settlement to the history of the Mon kingdom and its shifting centres of power.