The Pyu city states (Burmese: ပျူ မြို့ပြ နိုင်ငံများ, Chinese: 骠国; pinyin: Biāoguó) 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 ...

Etymology. The word is from the Venetian language, reaching English via French. Doge, along with the related English word duke and the Italian duce, duca (masculine) and duchessa (feminine) all descend from the Latin dux, meaning either "spiritual leader" or "military commander".However, the words duce and duca are not interchangeable. Moreover, duca (duke) is an aristocratic and …