Yangon (Rangoon)
The city of Yangon (Rangoon) developed at the site of the Shwe Dagon pagoda. This pagoda had been a purely religious site long before the town of Dagon was declared there by the Mon king in the early 1400s. The Burman king Alaungpaya conquered the Mons kingdom on the Lower Irrawaddy in 1755 and renamed the town at the site Yangon, which means end of war strife in Burmese. Rangoon is just an inaccurate transliteration of Yangon.