Editing Yangon (section)

===Early history===
Yangon was founded as ''[[Dagon Township|Dagon]]'' in the early 11th century ({{circa|1028–1043}}) by the [[Mon people]], who inhabited Lower Burma at that time.<ref>Founded during the reign of King Pontarika, per {{cite book |title=Legendary History of Burma and Arakan |url=https://archive.org/details/legendaryhistor00smitgoog |year=1882 |author=Charles James Forbes Smith-Forbes |publisher=The Government Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/legendaryhistor00smitgoog/page/n30 20]}}; the king's reign was 1028 to 1043 per {{cite book |last=Harvey |first=G. E. |title=History of Burma: From the Earliest Times to 10 March 1824 |publisher=Frank Cass & Co. Ltd |year=1925 |location=London |page=368}}</ref> Dagon became an important pilgrimage pagoda town, starting in the 14th century, during the [[Hanthawaddy Kingdom]]. Notable governors of Dagon included Princess [[Maha Dewi of Hanthawaddy|Maha Dewi]], who ruled the town from 1364 to 1392,<ref>{{Cite book |title=Razadarit Ayedawbon (in Burmese) (8th printing, 2005 ed.) |last=Pan Hla |first=Nai |publisher=Armanthit Sarpay |orig-date=1968 |year=2005 |location=Yangon |page=54}}</ref> and her grandniece, [[Shin Sawbu|Shin Saw Pu]], who later became the only female [[queen regnant]] in [[History of Myanmar|Burmese history]]. Queen Saw Pu built a palace next to the [[Shwedagon Pagoda]] in the town in 1460 and spent her semi-retired life at that palace until her death in 1471.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/newuniversalgaze00morsrich |title=A new universal gazetteer, or geographical dictionary .. |last1=Morse |first1=Jedidiah |last2=Morse |first2=Richard C. (Richard Cary) |last3=Converse |first3=S. |date=1823 |publisher=New Haven, S. Converse |others=University of California Libraries}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.9463 |title=History of Burma: from the earliest times to March 1824 |last=Harvey |first=G. E. |date=1925}}</ref>

In 1755, King [[Alaungpaya]], the founder of the [[Konbaung dynasty]] captured Dagon, added settlements around it, and called the enlarged town "Yangon". In the 1790s, the [[East India Company]] opened a factory in Yangon. The estimated population of Yangon in 1823 was about 30,000.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/imperialgazettee21grea |title=Imperial gazetteer of India .. |last1=Great Britain. India Office |last2=Hunter |first2=William Wilson |last3=Cotton |first3=James Sutherland |last4=Burn |first4=Richard |last5=Meyer |first5=William Stevenson |date=1907 |publisher=Oxford : Clarendon Press |others=University of California Libraries}}</ref> The [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] captured Yangon during the [[First Anglo-Burmese War]] (1824–26), but returned the city to Burmese rule after the war. The city was destroyed by a fire in 1841.<ref name="mcy">{{Cite book |title=Megacity yangon: transformation processes and modern developments |author=Kyaw Kyaw |isbn=978-3-8258-0042-0 |editor1=Frauke Krass |editor2=Hartmut Gaese |editor3=Mi Mi Kyi |pages=333–334 |publisher=Lit Verlag |location=Berlin |year=2006}}</ref>