No other artefacts, images, inscriptions or even references in national chronicles on the son of the
Inwa king have been documented.
Emma Spence, a newly qualified INWA instructor and project coordinator at Get Moving North Tyneside, said: "Nordic Walking is one of the best exercise workouts for people of all ages and abilities."
STRIDING OUT - Left to right, Amy Carroll, Cobalt travel co-ordinator, Emma Spence, newly qualified INWA Nordic Walking instructor, and project co-ordinator of Get Moving North Tyneside, and Lynn Cramman, Cobalt travel co-ordinator
The group, led by Gareth Davies and training hard over Cannock Chase, are flying out to Estonia to compete in the International Nordic Walking Association (
INWA) World Cup Race over 10km, writes Joe Edwards.
The perennial Southeast Asian concerns of controlling people, resources, or trade were also factors in warfare between inland (
Inwa or Ava) and maritime (Pegu) polities.
This pattern was once again resurrected when one of the princes of the Second Pegu/Toungoo Dynasty, whose fief was located in a strategic town in Upper Myanmar (Nyaung-yan), reformulated the old by making the city of Ava its centre, recreating a new dry zone dynasty out of the existing human and political resources that traditional indigenous historiography knows only as the Second
Inwa (Ava) Dynasty.
(14) The [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]: [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]: Hmannan Yazawindawgyi ['Great Glass Palace Chronicle'] was commissioned in 1829, (15) and the compilers replicated almost verbatim the elaborate descriptions of accounts of figures, events and kingdoms found in U Kala's chronicle at least up to the
Inwa period, which marks the end of volume three of the latter's work.
Then, in a separate section, those of the
Inwa (Ava) Dynasty are also enumerated.
Thus the Europeans regularly referred to 'The Kingdom of Ava' (
Inwa pyi), 'The kingdom of Pegu' and so on.