About “Pawtugi Yazawin”
Pawtugi Yazawin is a Burmese chronicle that documents the history of the Portuguese, with a focus on their rule at Syriam, known today as Thanlyin, between 1599 and 1613. The text is based on oral history and was first compiled in the early 19th century by Father Ignacio de Brito and Johannes Moses. It was first published in 1918 in Yangon. The chronicle provides a historical account of Portuguese presence in the region from a Burmese perspective. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)