Bago, Myanmar Bago, Myanmar Bago (formerly spelt Pegu; , ; , ), formerly known as Hanthawaddy (; ; ; meaning "She Who Has Swans"), is a city and the capital of the Bago Region in Myanmar. It is located north-east of Yangon. Various Mon language chronicles report widely divergent foundation dates of Bago, ranging from 573 CE to 1152 CE while the "Zabu Kuncha", an early 15th century Burmese administrative treatise, states that Pegu was founded in 1276/77 CE. The earliest extant evidence of Pegu as a place dates only to the late Pagan period (1212 and 1266) when it was still
Bago, Negros Occidental of these settlers petitioned the Spanish authorities to declare their village a "pueblo" or town and to name it "Bago". Among the petitioners were Manuel Sitchon, Gregorio Varela, Paulino Torres, Jacinto Araneta, Clemente Celis, Mariano Gonzaga and Fernando Villanueva, whose forebears hailed from the town of Molo, lloilo. The said petition was finally granted by the Spanish authorities in the year 1800; thus, Bago officially attained the status of a "pueblo" or town in that same year. Between the years 1800 and 1898, the inhabitants of Bago are among those who suffered tremendously under the Spanish tyranny, injustice and oppression.