Ye

Ye lies on the coast of southern Burma, where the Ye River reaches the Andaman Sea. The river valley opens between wooded hills and the sea, south of the old Mon centres around Martaban. For generations the coast linked the ports of Lower Burma with the Malay Peninsula and the Bay of Bengal. The First Anglo-Burmese War changed its rulers: under the Treaty of Yandabo in 1826, Ye and the other Tenasserim coastal provinces were ceded to Britain.