Min Phalaung, Burmese monarch (died 1593)

Min Phalaung

King of Arakan

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…