Mogok is a town of around 90,000 people in the Thabeikkyin District of Mandalay Region of Myanmar, located 200 kilometres north of Mandalay and 148 kilometres north-east of Shwebo. Mogok is believed to be founded in 1217 by three lost Shan hunters who discovered rubies at the base of a collapsed mountain later known as Kyee Arr Taung. Accord…Mogok is a town of around 90,000 people in the Thabeikkyin District of Mandalay Region of Myanmar, located 200 kilometres north of Mandalay and 148 kilometres north-east of Shwebo. Mogok is believed to be founded in 1217 by three lost Shan hunters who discovered rubies at the base of a collapsed mountain later known as Kyee Arr Taung. According to the oral history, the hunters returned to their home in Momeik and offered the precious stones to the local saopha who established a village in what would become modern-day Mogok.
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