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Dom Antonio, the Glossary

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Dom Antonio de Rozario (– 1695) was a Christian missionary from Bengal.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 15 relations: Arakan, Bengal, Bengali language, Brahmin, Catholic Church, Christianity, Dhaka District, Faridpur District, Jessore District, Lisbon, Manuel da Assumpção, Portuguese language, Portuguese people, University of Calcutta, Zamindar.

  2. Bangladeshi Christians
  3. Converts to Roman Catholicism from Hinduism
  4. Roman Catholic missionaries in Bangladesh

Arakan

Arakan is the historical geographical name of Rakhine State, Myanmar (formerly Burma). The region was called Arakan for centuries until the Burmese military junta changed its name in 1989. The people of the region were known as Arakanese. Arakan's first states can be traced to the 4th century. Arakan was one of the first Indianized kingdoms in Southeast Asia.

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Bengal

Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.

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Brahmin

Brahmin (brāhmaṇa) is a varna (caste) within Hindu society.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Dhaka District

Dhaka District (translit) is a district in central Bangladesh, and is the densest district in the nation.

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Faridpur District

Faridpur District (ফরিদপুর জেলা) is a district in south-central Bangladesh.

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Jessore District

Jessore District (Bengali: যশোর, pronounced Jaw-shore, Anglicised: Jessore), officially spelled Jashore District from April 2018, is a district in southwestern Bangladesh.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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Manuel da Assumpção

Manuel da Assumpção (then spelled Manoel da Assumpçam) was a Portuguese missionary who wrote the first grammar of the Bengali language, in 1743, titled "Vocabulario em idioma Bengalla, e Portuguez" (Vocabulary of Bengali language and Portuguese. Divided into two parts) (archaic Vocabulario em idioma Bengalla, e Portuguez.).Banglapedia, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2003. Dom Antonio and Manuel da Assumpção are Roman Catholic missionaries in Bangladesh.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Portuguese people

The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.

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University of Calcutta

The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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Zamindar

A zamindar in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semi-autonomous feudal ruler of a zamindari (feudal estate).

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See also

Bangladeshi Christians

Converts to Roman Catholicism from Hinduism

Roman Catholic missionaries in Bangladesh

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Antonio