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44 relations: Animism, Baptists, Bawlakhe, British rule in Burma, Bwe Karen language, Catholic Church, Christianity, Geba Karen language, Geko Karen, Government of the United Kingdom, Great Britain, Hsatung, Independence, Kantarawadi, Karen Hills, Karen people, Karenni people, Kayah State, Kayan people (Myanmar), Kayaw language, Kayin State, Konbaung dynasty, Loikaw, Lower Myanmar, Mawchi, Mawkmai, Military police, Mindon Min, Mongpai, Myanmar, Pa'O people, Papun, Post-independence Burma, 1948–62, Red Karen language, Saopha, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Shan people, Shan States, Sino-Tibetan languages, Thailand, Theravada, Tungsten, United States, Western Karenni.
Animism
Animism (from Latin anima, "breath, spirit, life") is the religious belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
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Baptists
Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).
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Bawlakhe
Bawlakhe (ဘော်လခဲမြို့) is a town in the Kayah State of eastern part of Burma.
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British rule in Burma
British rule in Burma, also known as British Burma, lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a Province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence.
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Bwe Karen language
Bwe, also known as Bwe Karen and Bghai (Baghi), is a Karen language of Burma.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Christianity
ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.
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Geba Karen language
Geba, also known as Eastern Bwe, is a Karen language of Burma.
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Geko Karen
Geko is a Karen language of Burma.
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Government of the United Kingdom
The Government of the United Kingdom, formally referred to as Her Majesty's Government, is the central government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Great Britain
Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.
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Hsatung
Hsatung (also known as Hsahtung or Thaton) was a Shan state in what is today Burma.
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Independence
Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over the territory.
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Kantarawadi
Kantarawadi (ကန္နရဝတီ)(กันตรวดี), also known as Gantarawadi, was one of the Karenni States in what is today Kayah State in Burma.
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Karen Hills
The Karen Hills, also known as Kayah-Karen Mountains, are one of the main hill ranges in eastern Burma.
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Karen people
The Karen, Kayin, Kariang or Yang people (ကညီကလုာ်, ကရင်လူမျိုး,; Per Ploan Poe or Ploan in Pwo Karen and Pwa Ka Nyaw or Kanyaw in Sgaw Karen; กะเหรี่ยง) refer to a number of individual Sino-Tibetan language speaking ethnic groups, many of which do not share a common language or culture.
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Karenni people
The Karenni, also known as the Red Karen, the Kayah or the Kayahli (meaning "red human"), are a Sino-Tibetan people living mostly in Kayah State, Myanmar (Burma).
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Kayah State
Kayah State (ကယားပြည်နယ်, formerly, Karenni State) is a state of Myanmar.
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Kayan people (Myanmar)
The Kayan are a sub-group of Red Karen (Karenni people), Tibeto-Burman ethnic minority of Myanmar (Burma).
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Kayaw language
Brek, also known as Brek Karen, Bwe, and Kayaw, is a Karen language of Burma.
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Kayin State
Kayin State (ကညီကီၢ်ဆဲၣ်,, ကရင်ပြည်နယ်,; formerly Karen) is a state of Myanmar.
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Konbaung dynasty
The Konbaung dynasty (ကုန်းဘောင်ခေတ်), formerly known as the Alompra dynasty, or Alaungpaya dynasty, was the last dynasty that ruled Burma/Myanmar from 1752 to 1885.
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Loikaw
Loikaw is the capital of Kayah State in Myanmar.
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Lower Myanmar
Lower Burma (အောက်မြန်မာပြည်, also called Outer Myanmar) is a geographic region of Burma (Myanmar) and includes the low-lying Irrawaddy delta (Ayeyarwady, Bago and Yangon Regions), as well as coastal regions of the country (Rakhine and Mon States and Tanintharyi Region).
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Mawchi
Mawachi a location in the Bawlake district of the Kayah State (also called Karenni State) is a state of Myanmar and formerly in the Karenni States of Burma.
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Mawkmai
Mawkmai is a town and capital of Mawkmai Township in Loilem District, Shan State, Burma.
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Military police
Military police (MP) are law enforcement agencies connected with, or part of, the military of a state.
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Mindon Min
Mindon Min (မင်းတုန်းမင်း,; 8 July 1808 – 1 October 1878) was the penultimate king of Burma (Myanmar) from 1853 to 1878.
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Mongpai
Mongpai was a Shan state in what is today Burma.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.
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Pa'O people
The Pa'O (Pa-O, Paoh) (ပအိုဝ်းလူမျိုး,, or) is the seventh largest ethnic nationality in Burma with a population of approximately 2,000,0002,600,000.
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Papun
Papun is a town in the Karen State of southern Burma.
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Post-independence Burma, 1948–62
During the first years of post-independence Burma, insurgencies by the Red Flag Communists led by Thakin Soe, the White Flag Communists led by Thakin Than Tun, the Yèbaw Hpyu (White-band PVO) led by Bo La Yaung, a member of the Thirty Comrades, army rebels calling themselves the Revolutionary Burma Army (RBA) led by communist officers Bo Zeya, Bo Yan Aung and Bo Yè Htut – all three of them members of the Thirty Comrades, Arakanese, and the Karen National Union (KNU).
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Red Karen language
Red Karen or Karenni, known in Burmese as Kayah, is a Karen dialect continuum spoken by over half a million Kayah people (Red Karen) in Burma.
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Saopha
Saopha, Sao Pha, Chaopha, Jaopha, sawbwa, or saw-bwa (စော်ဘွား,; Shan: ၸဝ်ႈၾႃႉ, literally meaning "lord of the heavens" or "lord of the sky") was a royal title used by the hereditary rulers of the semi-independent Shan States (Mong, မိူင်း) in what today is Eastern Myanmar (Burma).
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in Christian and Jewish calendars, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ.
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Shan people
The Shan (တႆး;, ရှမ်းလူမျိုး;; ไทใหญ่ or ฉาน) are a Tai ethnic group of Southeast Asia.
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Shan States
Shan States and British Shan States (1885 - 1948) is an historic name for Minor Kingdoms (analogous to Princely state of British India) ruled by Saopha (similar to Thai royal title Chao Fa Prince or Princess) in large areas of today's Burma (Myanmar), China's Yunnan Province, Laos and Northern Thailand from the late 13th century until the mid-20th century.
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Sino-Tibetan languages
The Sino-Tibetan languages, in a few sources also known as Trans-Himalayan, are a family of more than 400 languages spoken in East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.
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Theravada
Theravāda (Pali, literally "school of the elder monks") is a branch of Buddhism that uses the Buddha's teaching preserved in the Pāli Canon as its doctrinal core.
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Tungsten
Tungsten, or wolfram, is a chemical element with symbol W (referring to wolfram) and atomic number 74.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Western Karenni
Western Karenni was the collective name for the four Karenni States located west of the Salween River: Bawlake, Nammekon, Naungpale, and Kyebogyi.
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Karen-Ni, Karenni, Kayah (Karenni), Kayah people, Manu Manaw, Manu Manaw people, Red Karen.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karenni_people
