Martaban
Americannoun
noun
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The invaders drove from Siam into extreme Lower Burma, and then around the Gulf of Martaban to ruined, abandoned Rangoon.
From Time Magazine Archive
They all run southward, through Upper Burma to the rice fields of the south, and then into the Gulf of Martaban and the Bay of Bengal.
From Time Magazine Archive
British East Indies Fleet units, standing in to the Gulf of Martaban, shelled the flatlands south of Rangoon.
From Time Magazine Archive
They struck directly at Moulmein, about 170 miles east of Rangoon by the railroad around the Gulf of Martaban.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Martaban, another sea-port in the kingdom of Pegu, many ships come from Malacca, with sandal-wood, porcelains, and other wares of China, camphor of Borneo, and pepper from Acheen in the island of Sumatra.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr
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