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Map showing the course of the TAZARA in relation to Tanzania's geography, national parks and game reserves. Running some 1,860 km (1,160 mi) from Tanzania's largest city, Dar es Salaam, on the coast of the Indian Ocean to Kapiri Mposhi, near the Copperbelt of central Zambia, the Tazara is sometimes regarded as the greatest engineering effort of its kind since World War II.
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The history of Bangladesh dates back over four millennia to the Chalcolithic period. The region's early history was characterized by a succession of Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms and empires that fought for control over the Bengal region .
Bangladesh co-hosts the ICC Cricket World Cup with India and Sri Lanka. 5 September: India and Bangladesh sign a pact to end their 40-year border demarcation dispute. [42] 2012: 18 January: Bangladesh Army claimed to have foiled a coup d'état attempt. 24 November: Garments factory fire at Tazreen Fashion factory in Ashulia kills 117. [43] 2013 ...
Thus, Dahala Khagrabari was the enclave of an enclave of an enclave. In practice, it was a parcel of land used for farming and was not actually inhabited. It was separated by a few metres of Bangladeshi land from its first-order Indian enclave. [1] [2]
The Mauryan period Mahasthan inscription in Brahmi, recording a land grant. [43] The Mahasthangarh inscription is an important piece of evidence that supports the presence of Mauryan rule in Bengal. Mahasthangarh, located in present-day Bogra District in Bangladesh, was an ancient city known as Pundranagara. The site holds great historical ...
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 ]
After the fall of the Pala dynasty of Kamarupa, the kingdom fractured into different domains in the 12th century. Sandhya, a ruler of Kamarupanagara (present-day North Guwahati) moved his capital further west to present-day North Bengal in the middle of the 13th century and the domain he ruled over came to be called Kamata kingdom. [8]