Portuguese settlement in Chittagong
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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] The Portuguese first arrived in Chittagong around 1528[2] and left in 1666[3] after the Mughal conquest.[4] It was the first European colonial enclave in the historic region of Bengal.[5]
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Portuguese settlement in Chittagong | |||||||||||
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1528–1666 | |||||||||||
Status | Trading post | ||||||||||
Capital | Firingi Bunder, Chittagong | ||||||||||
Common languages | Portuguese, Bengali | ||||||||||
King of Portugal | |||||||||||
Historical era | Imperialism | ||||||||||
• Permission from the Bengal Sultanate | 1528 | ||||||||||
• Mughal annexation of Chittagong | 1666 | ||||||||||
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