History
See also: Shan States and Shan peopleShan State is the unitary successor state to the Burmese Shan States, the princely states that were under some degree of control of Irrawaddy valley-based Burmese kingdoms. (Historical Tai-Shan states extended well beyond the Burmese Shan States, ranging from full fledged kingdoms of Assam in the northwest to Lan Xang in the east to Lanna and Ayutthaya in the southeast, as well as several petty princely states in between, covering present day northern Chin State, northern Sagaing Division, Kachin State, Kayah State in Myanmar as well as Laos, Thailand and southwestern part of Yunnan. The definition of Burmese Shan States does not include the Ava Kingdom and the Hanthawaddy Kingdom of 13th to 16th centuries although the founders of these kingdoms were Burmanized Shans and Monized Shans, respectively.)
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