Zegyo Market
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| Location | 84th St between 24th and 26th Streets Chanayethazan, Mandalay Mandalay Division, Myanmar |
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| Coordinates | 21°58′52″N 96°04′37″E / 21.98111°N 96.07694°ECoordinates: 21°58′52″N 96°04′37″E / 21.98111°N 96.07694°E |
| Opening date | 1860s |
Zegyo Market (Burmese: ဈေးချို), located in downtown Mandalay, is the oldest and most important market in Mandalay.
[edit] History
Zegyo Market, covering 12 acres (4.86 hectares), was founded during the reign of King Mindon. It was a principal distribution center for beans, citrus fruit, cotton, nuts, onions, rice, tobacco and wheat as well as the main market for jewellery and handicrafts such as silver and gold embroidery.[1] The market was totally destroyed by fire in 1897,[2] and rebuilt in 1903 with a masonry structure designed by an Italian, Count Conte Calderari.[3] In the 1990s, the colonial era structure was pulled down and replaced with a Chinese-style shopping center.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Leo Paul Dana (2002). When economies change paths: models of transition in China, the central Asian republics, Myanmar & the nations of former Indochine Française. World Scientific. p. 163–166. ISBN 9810249497, 9789810249496.
- ^ Hugh Chisholm (1911). The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information (11 ed.). University press. p. 557.
- ^ a b Nelles Verlag, Helmut Köllner, Axel Bruns (1998). Myanmar (Burma). Hunter Publishing, Inc. p. 160. ISBN 3886184153, 9783886184156.
