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Sagyin (Burmese: စကျင်) is a
village in
Mandalay Region, Myanmar. The village's name is
eponymous with the
Burmese word for "marble."
Sagyin is home to...
- The
statue itself weighs 5,292 tons,
built using marble quarried from
Sagyin (စကျင်), near Mandalay. The
image is
located on a 91-hectare site, which...
- yearly. The
township is also home to Myanmar's
largest marble quarry in
Sagyin. In the 16th century, the Gwe
Shans built a
stockade in the
village of Okpo...
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marble weighing more than 10 tons from
Sagyin Hill, 50
kilometres (31 mi)
north of Mandalay, was sighted.
Sagyin Hill was
famous in
Myanmar for its superior...
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making it 730
stone inscriptions in total. The
marble was
quarried from
Sagyin Hill 32
miles (51 km)
north of Mandalay, and
transported by
river to the...
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which is
carved out of a
single piece of
white marble quarried in
Sagyin Hill,
Madaya Township,
Mandalay Region. The
image weighs approximately 560...
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exported to the Shan
States and to the Ruby
Mines district. In the
Sagyin hills,
where high-quality
alabaster was extracted,
there was also a small...
- Ywa-sa Princess. On 7 June 1873, Mah Too-tu
married Shwe Gwe, a lady from
Sagyin-wa
village near Amarapura, who
happened to be the
daughter of a princess...
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figure was
sculpted from a
single block of pale
green marble quarried at
Sagyin, 12
miles (19 km)
north of Mandalay. The
stone block was
transported over...
