Saharat Thai Doem was an administrative division of Thailand. It encompassed parts of the Shan States of British Burma annexed by the Thai government after the Japanese conquest of Burma.
The Thai flag in Kengtung
Thai soldiers and government officials occupying a Burmese village
Phin Choonhavan, Thai military governor of Saharat Thai Doem
The northern loop on Highway 1285 from Mae Hong Son was based on the original network of roads built in 1943 to connect Saharat Thai Doem with the rest of Thailand.
British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese Wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independen
Saharat Thai Doem
…Thai: สหรัฐไทยเดิม, lit. 'Unified Former Thai Territories') was an administrative division of Thailand. It encompassed parts of the Shan States of British Burma annexed by the Thai government after the Japanese conquest of Burma. By means of this annexation, Axis-aligned Thailand expanded northwards to the 22nd…
British naval forces entering the harbour of Rangoon in May 1824
Photograph of the arrival of British forces in Mandalay on 28 November 1885 at the end of the Third Anglo-Burmese War.
In this rendering, British officers take King Thibaw onto a steamship en route to exile in India. He would never see Burma again.
"Proclamation" of the annexation of Burma into the British Empire in English and Burmese, published in Mandalay on 4 January 1886