Chittagong

Bandaran Chakma peoples Chittagong Cox Bazar Dhaka Kaptai Lake Marma peoples Tiperan peoples

Chittagong

 

view of city

Chittagong, city and port in southeastern Bangladesh, on the Karnaphuli River, near the Bay of Bengal. 

 

boats on the Bay of Bengal

 

fish nets on the water front

The city is the commercial center for the surrounding agricultural region, which produces rice, jute, gunny (a coarse fabric), tea, and hides. The University of Chittagong (1966) is here. Chittagong became an important commercial center under the Portuguese in the 16th century. It became a possession of the English East India Company between 1760 and 1765. Originally a part of Arakan, it was claimed 60 years later by the emperor of Burma (now known as Myanmar) as a dependency of that territory. The claim was one of the causes of the First Burmese-British War in 1824.

High Court (English style)

 

Lawyers meeting clients

 Chittagong was part of Pakistan from 1947 until 1971, when it became part of the new nation of Bangladesh. Population (1991) 1,364,000.

 

entrance to Qadam Mubarak Mosque (1719)

 

contains slab which bears the imprint of the Prophet's foot

 

scholar

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street scene

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Mazar of Sultan Bayazid Bostami

 

pond of turtles
(legend says evil spirits were turned into turtles over 1000 year ago)

 

feeding bread to turtles

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World War II cemetery

 

visitors

 

a grave of an African solder fighting for the British Army

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Bandaran Chakma peoples Chittagong Cox Bazar Dhaka Kaptai Lake Marma peoples Tiperan peoples

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