Tabinshwehti, Burmese king (born 1516)

Tabinshwehti

Founder of the First Toungoo Empire

Tabinshwehti was King of Burma from 1530 to 1550, and the founder of the First Toungoo Empire. His military campaigns (1534–1549) created the largest kingdom in Burma since the fall of the Pagan Empire in 1287. His administratively fragile kingdom proved to be the impetus for…