High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Politics
1061
Pagan Establishes Forty-Three Frontier Forts
February 1061
By royal order issued in February, King Anawrahta's engineers completed a chain of forty-three fortified posts ringing the Pagan kingdom's expanded borders. The forts guarded against Shan hill raiders and secured the overland routes to China's Yunnan frontier. This defensive infrastructure transformed Pagan from a river-valley kingdom into a territorial state with defined, defended boundaries - a leap in political organization unprecedented in Burmese history.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.