Zegyo Market
| ဈေးချို | |
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| Location | 84th St between 24th and 26th Streets Chanayethazan, Mandalay Mandalay Division, Myanmar |
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| Coordinates | 21°58′57″N 96°04′38″E / 21.9826°N 96.0771°E |
| Opening date | 1860s |
| No. of floors | 4 |
Zegyo Market (Burmese: ဈေးချို), located in central Mandalay, is the oldest and most important market in Mandalay.
History
[edit]Zegyo Market, covering 12 acres (4.86 hectares), was founded during the reign of King Mindon. It was a principal distribution centre 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 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 centre.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ 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. pp. 163–166. ISBN 9789810249496.
- ^ Scott, James George (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 557–558.
- ^ a b Nelles Verlag; Helmut Köllner; Axel Bruns (1998). Myanmar (Burma). Hunter Publishing, Inc. p. 160. ISBN 9783886184156.