Mrauk Oo is founded by King Min Saw Mon in the year AD1430 and became the capital of Rakhine for about 355 years, its glory over the reign of 48 Kings. Mrauk Oo then ceased to be the capital when the Kingdom fell to the Myanmar King in 1785. The palace walls, moats, ponds, palace sites, pagidas, stupas and monasteries of Mrauk Oo are still standing in evidence.