The
Pyu city states were a group of
city-states that existed from c. 2nd century
BCE to c. mid-11th century in present-day
Upper Burma (Myanmar). The city-states were founded as part of the southward migration by the
Tibeto-Burman-speaking Pyu people, the earliest inhabitants of Burma of whom records are extant. The thousand-year period, often referred to as the
Pyu millennium, linked the
Bronze Age to the beginning of the
classical states period when the
Pagan Kingdom emerged in the late 9th century.