Amarapura

Amarapura ('city of the gods'), till 1860 the capital of Burmah, was situated on the left bank of the Irawadi, 6 miles NE. of Ava. Founded in 1783, it was totally destroyed by fire in 1810, and almost totally by earthquake in 1839; so that the population dwindled from 175,000 in 1800, to almost nil after Mandalay became the seat of government. Little remains of the old city but some rows of beautiful trees and a few ruined pagodas.