Min Phalaung, Burmese monarch (died 1593)

Min Phalaung was king of Rakhine from 1572 to 1593. He presided over the continued rise of Arakan, begun under his father King Min Bin. He extended his realm to India Tripura (1575) and Bengal (1586–1587), and withstood a major invasion by Toungoo Burma (1580–1581). He completely stayed out of the chaos in Toungoo Burma in the following years. Phalaung left a prosperous and confident kingdom to his son Raza II, who succeeded him in 1593. He was married to own sister Saw Mi Taw.