Kawliya

Kawliya was one of the satellite towns of Hanthawaddy in the country around Pegu. Its old site lies northwest of Daik-U, on a plain crossed by creeks. Local historical records associate its foundation with the minister Binnya Kamanywak during the reign of Binnya Ran. Under King Dhammazedi, the town also received Buddhist ordination buildings, placing it within the religious institutions supported by the Mon court.

A late eighteenth-century administrative survey described the town's wider jurisdiction by reference to neighbouring territories, waterways and pagodas. Its boundaries reached toward Sittaung country and other satellites of Hanthawaddy, including Zaungtu and Yenwe. Remains of a rectangular brick wall, approximately 750 metres from east to west and 360 metres from north to south, preserve the outline of that centre. Court-sponsored religion, an enclosed town and its surrounding jurisdiction together distinguish Kawliya's place in the historical geography of the Pegu region.