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  Tenasserim - Wikipedia
Tenasserim (seit 1989 Tanintharyi) ist eine Division (Verwaltungseinheit) von Myanmar (Birma).
1974 musste Tenasserim auch noch den Nordwesten zugunsten eines eigenen Staats der Mon abtreten und verlor dadurch auch seine bisherige Hauptstadt Mawlamyine.
Seit der Unabhängigkeit Birmas ist Tenasserim nicht mehr frei zugänglich.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tenasserim   (291 words)

  
 TENASSERIM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tenasserim (seit 1989 Tanintharyi) ist ein Distrikt von Birma
Tenasserim bildet langgestrecktes waldreiches Küstenland im Südosten des Irrawaddy-Tals von Nieder-Birma und liegt am Andamanischen Meer.
Seit der Unabhängigkeit Birmas 1948 ist Tenasserim nicht mehr frei zugänglich.
www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/T/Tenasserim   (124 words)

  
 Tenasserim Pine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tenasserim Pine (Pinus latteri) is a pine native to southeast Asia, in the mountains of southeastern Myanmar, northern Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and on the Chinese island of Hainan.
The seeds are 7-8 mm long, with a 20-25 mm wing, and are wind-dispersed.
Tenasserim Pine is closely related to Sumatran Pine Pinus merkusii, which occurs further south in southeast Asia in Sumatra and the Philippines; some botanists treat the two as conspecific (under the name P.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tenasserim_Pine   (292 words)

  
 Tanintharyi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tanintharyi, better known by the old name Tenasserim, is a division of Myanmar, covering the long narrow southern part of the country on the Kra Isthmus.
At the end of the First Burmese War in 1826 Tenasserim became part of the British colonial empire with the Treaty of Yandaboo.
As the previous capital Moulmain is in the Mon state, the capital of Tenasserim was moved to Tavoy.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Tanintharyi   (222 words)

  
 BURMA - LoveToKnow Article on BURMA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Arakan with the Chin hills, the Irrawaddy basin, and the old province of Tenasserim, together with the portion of the Shan and Karen-ni states in the basin of the Salween, and part of Kengtung in the western basin of the Mekong.
in the Arakan and Tenasserim divisions to an average of 90 in Rangoon and the adjoining portion of the Irrawaddy delta.
Forests.The forests of Burma are the finest in British India and one of the chief assets of the wealth of the country; it is from Burma that the world draws its main supply of teak for shipbuilding, and indeed it was the demand for teak that largely led to the annexation of Burma.
65.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BURMA.htm   (12417 words)

  
 TENASSERIM - LoveToKnow Article on TENASSERIM
The southern extremity of the division approaches the insular region of Malaysia, and it is fringed along its entire western coast by a number of islands, forming in the north the Moscos and in the south the Mergui Archipelago.
The eastern frontier is formed by a mountain range 5000 ft. high, which acts as a water-parting between the Tenasserim and the Siamese river systems.
TEN BRINK, BERNHARD EGIDIUS KONRAD (1841-1892), German philologist, of Dutch origin, was born at Amsterdam on the 12th of January 1841, but was sent to school at Diisseldorf, and afterwards studied at Mtinster, and later under Diez and Delius at Bonn.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TE/TENASSERIM.htm   (1382 words)

  
 TANINTHARYI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tanintharyi, beter bekend onder de oude naam Tenasserim, is een divisie van Myanmar.
Aan het einde van de eerste Burmese oorlog in 1826 werd Tenasserim een onderdeel van het Britse koloniale rijk door het verdrag van Yandaboo.
Met de onafhankelijkheid van Birma in 1948 werd het noordoostelijke gedeelte van Tenasserim de Karen staat (nu genaamd Kayin Staat).
www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/T/Tanintharyi   (219 words)

  
 Tenasserim - www.Lexikon-Online.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tenasserim bildet langgestrecktes waldreiches Küstenland im Südosten des Irawaddy-Tals von Nieder-Burma und liegt am Andamanischen Meer.
Erst 1759 wird Tenasserim durch König Alaungsaya für Burma zurückgewonnen.
Seit der Unabhängigkeit Burmas 1948 ist Tenasserim nicht mehr frei zugänglich.
www.lexikon-online.info /q/Tenasserim   (114 words)

  
 Tenasserim Langur (Trachypithecus barbei)
The dental formula of the Tenasserim langur is 2:1:2:3 on both the upper and lower jaws (Agrawal, 1974; Ankel-Simons, 2000).
The dorsal pelage coloration of the Tenasserim langur is described as sooty fl (Agrawal, 1974; Groves, 2001).
The Tenasserim langur is found in a narrow strip of land in the countries of Burma and Thailand (Groves, 2001).
members.tripod.com /uakari/trachypithecus_barbei.html   (227 words)

  
 AMHERST, BARON - LoveToKnow Article on AMHERST, BARON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
AMHERST, a town and district in the Tenasserim division of Lower Burma.
It was founded by the British in 1826 on the restoration of the town of Martaban to the Burmese, and named in compliment to the governor-general of India of that day; but in 1827 the headquarters were transferred to Moulmein.
The river highways bring down inexhaustible supplies of rice to Moulmein, the chief town of the district, as also of the province of Tenasserim.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AM/AMHERST_BARON.htm   (1241 words)

  
 Tenasserim on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Military Mortality in Tropical Asia: British Troops in Tenasserim, 1827-36.
Thais seek treasure in Tenasserim River area, NATION
De-globalizing justice: the corporate campaign to strip foreign victims of corporate-induced human rights violations of the right to sue in U.S. courts.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-T1enasser.asp   (297 words)

  
 Rehmonnya.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Geographically, Tenasserim Division is a large area in the southernmost part of Burma and it has —— Townships totally.
In Tenasserim Division, Tavoy Town is the capital city and it is a well known district town and it has many Mon, Karen and Tavoyan villages under its administration.
In Tenasserim Division, there are more and large village communities in the rural area and so that the rebel armed force had more opportunities for hiding and getting supports from the communities, as most ethnic people Karen, Mon and Tavoyan, who are constantly mis-treated by the Burmese Army.
www.rehmonnya.org /report_detail.php?ID=4   (5846 words)

  
 Rehmonnya.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Since the northern part of Tenasserim Division has multinational corporate’s investments especially a Yatana gas pipeline, which is 65 miles long on-shore and operated by gas and oil companies: Total (France), UNOCAL (United States) and the regime’s Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprises (MOGE).
The civilians in Tenasserim Division are not only forced to be trainees in the training school, many of them are also forced to work in the army bases.
Most parts of Tenasserim Division is still declared as ‘fl area’ (free fire zones) in Burmese term, which means the troops of Burmese Army have full authority to kill anyone in the area without trial.
www.rehmonnya.org /report_detail.php?ID=1   (5455 words)

  
 myanmar (burma) country information
Burma covers a land area of 676,552 sq km and stretches for over 1,930 km from the inaccessible N Himalayan region to the S tip of the Tenasserim region, which extends down the Kra of Isthmus and faces the Andaman Sea.
The mountains also prevent the SW monsoon from blowing into central Burma: the annual rainfall on the W Arakan coast usually exceeds 5,000 mm, whereas in central Burma - the Dry Zone - the annual rainfall may be as low as 640 mm.
Regions facing the prevailing winds - particularly Arakan and Tenasserim, which are both backed by steep mountain ranges - receive some of the heaviest rainfall in the world.
www.asiatours.net /burma/info/countryinfo.html   (1017 words)

  
 Tenasserim Human Rights Reports
This man was taken to the Tenasserim hospital, but he was dead when he arrived at the hospital.
Most of the populations live in villages along the Tenasserim river and its tributaries, Tavoy river tributaries, Ngawun river and its tributaries etc., and along the government-controlled costal plain.
According to the SPDC's Ministry of Forestry's Survey Department estimation of population is 1,373,707 in Tenasserim division in 2001.
www.karen.org /refugees/humanrights   (940 words)

  
 Analysis of Tsunamis Affect in Burma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
They have, however, reported casualties and destruction in Tenasserim (Tanintharyi) Division, Rangoon (Yangon) Division, Pegu (Bago) Division, Irrawaddy (Ayerwaddy) division, Arakan (Rakhine) State, and in southern Shan State, mostly along the coats line, and caused by the earthquake as well as by the tidal waves.
The sea outside Tenasserim Division is an important fishing ground for local fishermen as well as for large fishing boats from Thailand and Burma.
The worse affected regions are reported to be Tenasserim Division bordering Thailand in Eastern Burma and Irrawaddy Division as well as Arakan State in Western Burma.
www.mizzima.com /archives/news-in-2004/news-in-dec/30-December04-28.htm   (1459 words)

  
 CBC News - Viewpoint: Matthew Walls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
What the military – known also by its more innocuous name, the State Peace and Development party – was claiming in the state organ, the New Light of Myanmar, seemed impossible: as neighbouring countries reported deaths in the thousands, and later in the tens of thousands, the military kept its casualty figure improbably at 59.
It briefly mentioned in the days after the tsunami that some houses were smashed, a bridge collapsed and a handful of villages were destroyed.
It suspected the military was playing down the damage because it didn't want to admit some of its naval bases on islands in the Andaman Sea had been debilitated.
www.cbc.ca /news/viewpoint/vp_walls/20050119.html   (1239 words)

  
 Brief History of the Whitehaven merchant sailing ship Tenasserim
She was launched on the 10th September 1861 and served in the Brocklebank fleet for only four years.
Like the Crisis three years earlier, the Tenasserim was wrecked on the Arklow Bank, off the Irish coast.
She was an iron full-rigged ship of 419 tons, built by Harland and Wolff at Belfast and launched in 1866.
www.mightyseas.co.uk /marhist/whitehaven/brocklebanks/tenasserim.htm   (297 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Thousands of Karen in Tenasserim Division found themselves in SPDC administered concentration camps and consolidated villages where they were viewed as a conquered and servile people.
The movement was a desperate response to the Karen human catastrophe in Tenasserim Division.
As the God’s Army met its swift and brutal demise, the horror for the Karen in Tenasserim persisted.
www.dictatorwatch.org /phshows/soldierstostudents.html   (1467 words)

  
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The widow was still in a state of shock, but she wanted the world to know how her husband had died.
Tenasserim district is the Karen's last stronghold inside Burma.
The junta's campaign in Tenasserim is similar to the army's brutal attempts in 1995 and 1996 to pacify a neighbouring region between Ye and Tavoy on the west coast to accompany a huge deal Slorc had signed with foreign oil companies.
www.burmanet.org /bnn_archives/1997/bnn0297n646.txt   (5747 words)

  
 [06-11-96] Edith T. Mirante, Burma's Gas Pipeline -- Litmus Test for Global Boycott Movement
The Tenasserim is inhabited largely by the Mon, Karen, and Tavoyan ethnic groups, who have long been in rebellion against Burma's ruling military.
To secure the Tenasserim, the Slorc has moved several battalions of troops around the pipeline route, a beefed-up presence reportedly accompanied by large-scale violations of human rights.
For their part, a coalition of rebel forces has vowed to turn the pipeline into "a snake of fire" if it is ever completed, and last year five members of a Total surveying team were killed and eleven wounded in an ambush by Karen rebels of their Burmese army guarded convoy.
www.pacificnews.org /jinn/stories/2.12/960611-burma.html   (829 words)

  
 BURMA/THAILAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Significant portions of the Karen and Mon States and Tenasserim Division are of great economic importance to both the SLORC and the Royal Thai government.
From Mergui the SLORC troops advanced north along the Tenasserim river to join with troops advancing along the river in a southerly direction, as well as advancing south, capturing the headquarters of the KNU 11th Battalion at Ler Ker on March 18.
As the SLORC troops moved further south along the Thai/Burmese border in the Tenasserim Division and began attacking the headquarters of the KNU's 11th Battalion at Ler Ker, villagers fled from this area to the border.
www.hrw.org /reports/1997/burma/Burma-02.htm   (8698 words)

  
 Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests (IM0163)
However, the lowland forests are heavily degraded, and many lowland specialists such as the endemic Gurney's pitta survive in a few isolated reserves.
This ecoregion encompasses the mountainous, semi-evergreen rain forests of the southern portion of the Tenasserim Range, which separates Thailand and Myanmar, and the numerous small ranges of peninsular Thailand.
Less than 5 percent of the level lowlands still retain their forest cover, and the degradation threats are slowly moving upslope to hill and montane forests (Stewart-Cox 1995).
worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0163_full.html   (1699 words)

  
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Thailand : : Denmark
It is hereby decreed that foreign merchants entering the harbour of the great city of Tenasserim to trade, and having accomplished their business should either be leaving the city or be moving on to the metropolis of Ayutthaya, are to be given every facility to carry on their business without cause for irritation.
An old tradition exists between Athilamas and Tenasserim that merchants from Athilamas should be able to travel within the territory belonging to the great city of Tenasserim.
The Governor of Tenasserim 's letter clearly indicated that Thailand has never shut the door to trade with other countries, although customs and dues were usually levied in this connection.
www.mfa.go.th /web/114.php   (517 words)

  
 Free-Fire Zones in Southern Tenasserim
In the Wai Yeh area west of Tenasserim town, all Karen villages were ordered to move into the central part of their villages by Infantry Battalions #103, 101, and 17, who told the villagers they are to be used to build a new road from Lay Thay in the south up to Beh Ya.
In the Tenasserim Division case, the SLORC Army has no permanent bases in the area, so it is clearing out the civilians to SLORC-controlled sites, then using them as a captive source of forced labour to build and improve access roads into the region.
Villagers from the southernmost reaches of the Tenasserim River are also constantly forced to rebuild and maintain the road which runs from Taninthari town up the east side of the Tenasserim River to Ta M’La and on to the mine at Thein Daw.
ibiblio.org /freeburma/humanrights/khrg/archive/khrg97/khrg9709.html   (12181 words)

  
 Personal Recollections of British Burma and Its Church Mission Work
British Burma consists of three divisions: Arakan, Pegu, and Tenasserim, extending along the eastern shore of the Bay of Bengal, from Chittagong in N. Lat.
From the river Sittang, the coast turns southward, parallel to the western boundary of Siam; inclosing a long and narrow strip of Tenasserim, and facing, at a distance of about twenty miles, a long and beautiful chain of islands called the Mergui Archipelago.
In Tenasserim even coal has been discovered; but, owing to the difficulty and expense of removing it, the seams are not worked.
justus.anglican.org /resources/pc/asia/burma/titcomb1880/preface.html   (944 words)

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