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Prome

American  
[prohm] / proʊm /

noun

  1. a city in central Myanmar (Burma), on the Irrawaddy River: location of several noted pagodas.


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The other was Prome, where General H. R. L. G. Alexander had, to some extent, refitted his battered British Imperials after their retreat from Rangoon.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1942, after service in the Middle East, Slim was ordered to the command of the First Burma Corps in Prome.

From Time Magazine Archive

The government had driven both the two chief rebel forces, the Karens and the White Flag Communists, from their respective strongholds, Toungoo and Prome.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beyond Prome were the oil fields of Yenahgyaung.

From Time Magazine Archive

It must be twenty degrees cooler, here, than it was at Prome.

From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by Overend, William Heysham

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