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Portuguese settlement in Chittagong, the Glossary

Chittagong, the second largest city and main port of Bangladesh, was home to a thriving trading post of the Portuguese Empire in the East in the 16th and 17th centuries.^[1]

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1520s establishments in Portuguese India
1528 establishments in Asia
1528 establishments in the Portuguese Empire
1660s disestablishments in Asia
1660s disestablishments in the Portuguese Empire
16th century in Portuguese India
17th century in Portuguese India
17th-century disestablishments in Portuguese India
Bengal Sultanate
Colonial Bengal
History of Chittagong
History of Chittagong Division
Portuguese India
Portuguese colonisation in Asia

Afonso VI of Portugal

Dom Afonso VI (21 August 164312 September 1683), known as "the Victorious" (o Vitorioso), was the second king of Portugal of the House of Braganza from 1656 until his death.

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Age of Discovery

The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and largely overlapping with the Age of Sail.

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Alphonso mango

The Alphonso mango, also called the hapus mango, is a named mango cultivar that originated in India.

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An apostolic vicariate is a territorial jurisdiction of the Catholic Church under a titular bishop centered in missionary regions and countries where dioceses or parishes have not yet been established.

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Arab slave trade

Arab slave trade refers to various periods in which a slave trade has been carried out under the auspices of Arab peoples or Arab countries.

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Armenians in Bangladesh

The Armenians in Bangladesh, more precisely the Armenians in Bengal, were ethnic Armenians who lived in what is now called Bangladesh.

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Asiatic Society of Bangladesh

The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh is a non political and non profit research organisation registered under both Society Act of 1864 and NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh.

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Balasore

Balasore, also known as Baleswar, is a city in the state of Odisha, about from the state capital Bhubaneswar and from Kolkata, in eastern India.

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Bandel

Bandel is a city in the Hooghly district of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.

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Barisal

Barisal (or; বরিশাল), officially known as Barishal, is a major city that lies on the banks of the Kirtankhola river in south-central Bangladesh.

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Batavia, Dutch East Indies

Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies.

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Bay of Bengal

The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean.

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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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Bengal Subah

The Bengal Subah, also referred to as Mughal Bengal, was the largest subdivision of the Mughal Empire encompassing much of the Bengal region, which includes modern-day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and some parts of the present-day Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha between the 16th and 18th centuries.

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Bengal Sultanate

The Bengal Sultanate (Middle Bengali: শাহী বাঙ্গালা, Classical Persian:, Arabic) was a late medieval sultanate based in the Bengal region between the 14th and 16th century.

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Bengali grammar

Bengali grammar (বাংলা ব্যাকরণ Bangla bêkôrôn) is the study of the morphology and syntax of Bengali, an Indo-European language spoken in the Indian subcontinent.

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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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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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Bullion

Bullion is non-ferrous metal that has been refined to a high standard of elemental purity.

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Bureaucrat

A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can compose the administration of any organization of any size, although the term usually connotes someone within an institution of government.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Carnation Revolution

The Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos), also known as the 25 April (25 de Abril), was a military coup by military officers that overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo government on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, producing major social, economic, territorial, demographic, and political changes in Portugal and its overseas colonies through the Processo Revolucionário Em Curso.

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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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Chittagong

Chittagong, officially Chattogram (Côṭṭôgrām, Chittagonian: চাটগাঁও Sāṭgão), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh. Portuguese settlement in Chittagong and Chittagong are former Portuguese colonies, former colonies in Asia and portuguese colonisation in Asia.

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Chittagonian language

Chittagonian (চাটগাঁইয়া saṭgãia or চিটাইঙ্গা siṭaiṅga) or Chittagonian Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in parts of the Chittagong Division in Bangladesh.

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Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as educational or hospital work, in the name of the Christian faith.

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Christianity in Bangladesh

Christians in Bangladesh account for 0.30% (roughly 500,000 believers) of the nation's population as of 2022 census.

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Church (building)

A church, church building, or church house is a building used for Christian worship services and other Christian religious activities.

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Colonial Brazil

Colonial Brazil (Brasil Colonial) comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to a kingdom in union with Portugal. Portuguese settlement in Chittagong and Colonial Brazil are former Portuguese colonies.

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Custom house

A custom house or customs house was traditionally a building housing the offices for a jurisdictional government whose officials oversaw the functions associated with importing and exporting goods into and out of a country, such as collecting customs duty on imported goods.

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Delonix regia

Delonix regia is a species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae native to Madagascar.

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Dhaka

Dhaka (or; Ḍhākā), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh.

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Dhaka Tribune

The Dhaka Tribune is a major Bangladeshi English-language daily newspaper based in Dhaka, the country's capital and largest city.

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Diplomatic mission

A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state.

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Dutch East India Company

The United East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, abbreviated as VOC), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world.

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Dutch settlement in Rajshahi

A trading post of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) existed in Rajshahi, Bengal, during the 18th century.

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Firingi Bazar

Firingi Bazar (Bengali: ফিরিঙ্গি বাজার, Portuguese: Firingi Bunder) is a ward and settlement along the Karnaphuli River in Chittagong. Portuguese settlement in Chittagong and Firingi Bazar are former Portuguese colonies and history of Chittagong.

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Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers

Fitzroy Dearborn was an American publisher of academic library reference titles with offices in London and Chicago.

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Gauḍa (city)

Gauḍa (also known as Gaur, Gour, Lakhnauti, Lakshmanavati and Jannatabad) is a historic city of Bengal in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, and one of the most prominent capitals of classical and medieval India, being the capital city of Bengal under several kingdoms. Portuguese settlement in Chittagong and Gauḍa (city) are Bengal Sultanate.

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Goa

Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. Portuguese settlement in Chittagong and Goa are former Portuguese colonies.

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Government Hazi Mohammad Mohsin College, Chittagong

Government Hazi Mohammad Mohsin College (সরকারি হাজী মুহাম্মদ মহসিন কলেজ) is one of the renowned colleges of Bangladesh located in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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History of Bombay under Portuguese rule (1534–1661)

Bombay, also called Bom Bahia or Bom Baim in Indo-Portuguese creole, Mumbai in the local language; is the financial and commercial capital of India and one of the most populous cities in the world. Portuguese settlement in Chittagong and History of Bombay under Portuguese rule (1534–1661) are 16th century in Portuguese India, 17th century in Portuguese India and portuguese India.

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History of India

Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago.

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History of slavery

The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day.

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Independence of Bangladesh

Independence of Bangladesh was declared on 26 March 1971, celebrated as Independence Day, from Pakistan.

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Indiana University Press

Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.

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João da Silveira

João da Silveira (also known as João da Silva) was the first Captain of Portuguese Ceylon.

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John III of Portugal

John III (João III; 7 June 1502 – 11 June 1557), nicknamed The Pious (Portuguese: o Piedoso), was the King of Portugal and the Algarves from 1521 until his death in 1557.

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Kingdom of Mrauk U

The Kingdom of Mrauk-U (Arakanese: မြောက်ဦး ဘုရင့်နိုင်ငံတော်) was a kingdom that existed on the Arakan littoral from 1429 to 1785. Portuguese settlement in Chittagong and kingdom of Mrauk U are Bengal Sultanate and history of Chittagong Division.

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Kingdom of Portugal

The Kingdom of Portugal was a monarchy in the western Iberian Peninsula and the predecessor of the modern Portuguese Republic.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Laissez-faire

Laissez-faire (or, from laissez faire) is a type of economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism (such as subsidies or regulations).

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Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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List of Portuguese monarchs

This is a list of Portuguese monarchs who ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal, in 1139, to the deposition of the Portuguese monarchy and creation of the Portuguese Republic with the 5 October 1910 revolution.

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Loanword

A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Moors

The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages.

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Mrauk U

Mrauk U is a town in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar.

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Mughal conquest of Chittagong

Mughal conquest of Chittagong refers to the conquest of Chittagong in 1666. Portuguese settlement in Chittagong and Mughal conquest of Chittagong are history of Chittagong Division.

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Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.

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Muslin

Muslin is a cotton fabric of plain weave.

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Odisha

Odisha (English), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India.

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Old Dhaka

Old Dhaka (Puran Dhaka) is a term used to refer to the historic old city of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.

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Port of Chittagong

The Chittagong Port (চট্টগ্রাম বন্দর) is the main seaport of Bangladesh.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Portuguese Ceylon

Portuguese Ceylon (Ceilão Português; පෘතුගීසි ලංකාව; போர்த்துக்கேய இலங்கை) is the name given to the territory on Ceylon, modern-day Sri Lanka, controlled by the Portuguese Empire between 1597 and 1658. Portuguese settlement in Chittagong and Portuguese Ceylon are former Portuguese colonies and portuguese colonisation in Asia.

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Portuguese Empire

The Portuguese Empire (Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas or the Portuguese Colonial Empire, was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal. Portuguese settlement in Chittagong and Portuguese Empire are portuguese colonisation in Asia.

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Portuguese India

The State of India (Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Estado Português da India, EPI) or simply Portuguese India (Índia Portuguesa), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama, a subject of the Kingdom of Portugal. Portuguese settlement in Chittagong and Portuguese India are former Portuguese colonies, former colonies in Asia and portuguese colonisation in Asia.

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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 Malacca

Portuguese control of Malacca –a city on the Malay Peninsula– spanned a 130 year period from 1511 to 1641 as a possession of the Portuguese East Indies. Portuguese settlement in Chittagong and Portuguese Malacca are former Portuguese colonies, former colonies in Asia and portuguese colonisation in Asia.

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Portuguese Navy

The Portuguese Navy (Marinha Portuguesa), also known as the Portuguese War Navy (Marinha de Guerra Portuguesa) or as the Portuguese Armada (Armada Portuguesa), is the navy of the Portuguese Armed Forces.

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Rakhine people

The Rakhine (Burmese and ရခိုင်လူမျိုး) or Arakanese are a Southeast Asian ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma) forming the majority along the coastal region of present-day Rakhine State (formerly called Arakan), although Rakhine communities also exist throughout the country, particularly in the Ayeyarwady and Yangon Regions.

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Rakhine State

Rakhine State (Rakhine and), formerly known as Arakan State, is a state in Myanmar (Burma).

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Sandwip

Sandwip (Shondip) is an island located along the southeastern coast of Bangladesh in the Chittagong District.

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Saptagram

Saptagram (colloquially called Satgaon) was an ancient major port, the chief city and sometimes capital of southern Bengal, in ancient and medieval times of Bengal, the location presently being in the Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Shah Jahan

Mirza Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), also known as Shah Jahan I, was the fifth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1628 until 1658.

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Shaista Khan

Mirza Abu Talib (b. 22 November 1600 – d. 1694), better known as Shaista Khan, was a Moghul General and the Subahdar of Mughal Bengal, he was maternal uncle to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, he acted as a key figure during his reign, Shaista Khan initially governed the Deccan, where he clashed with the Maratha ruler Shivaji, However, he was most notable for his tenure as the governor of Bengal from 1664 to 1688, Under Shaista Khan's authority, the city of Dhaka and Mughal power in the province attained its greatest heights.

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Surname

A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family.

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Tamluk

Tamluk is a town and a municipality in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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The Daily Star (Bangladesh)

The Daily Star is a Bangladeshi English-language daily newspaper.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Thomas the Apostle

Thomas the Apostle (Θωμᾶς, romanized: Thōmâs; Aramaic ܬܐܘܡܐ, romanized:, meaning "the twin"), also known as Didymus (Greek: Δίδυμος, romanized: Dídymos, meaning "twin"), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament.

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Toungoo dynasty

The Toungoo dynasty (တောင်ငူမင်းဆက်,; also spelt Taungoo dynasty), and also known as the Restored Toungoo dynasty, was the ruling dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from the mid-16th century to 1752. Portuguese settlement in Chittagong and Toungoo dynasty are history of Chittagong Division.

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References

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

Also known as Porto Grande De Bengala, Portuguese Bengal, Portuguese Chittagong, The Portuguese in Bengal.

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Portuguese settlement in Chittagong, the Glossary

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See also

1520s establishments in Portuguese India

1528 establishments in Asia

1528 establishments in the Portuguese Empire

1660s disestablishments in Asia

1660s disestablishments in the Portuguese Empire

16th century in Portuguese India

17th century in Portuguese India

17th-century disestablishments in Portuguese India

Bengal Sultanate

Colonial Bengal

History of Chittagong

History of Chittagong Division

Portuguese India

Portuguese colonisation in Asia

References