Grand Harbor of Bengal Porto Grande de Bengala (Portuguese) | |||||||||||
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| 1528–1666 | |||||||||||
 Portuguese Chittagong (at top right corner) with other Portuguese settlements in India | |||||||||||
| Status | Trading post | ||||||||||
| Capital | Firingi Bunder | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Portuguese, Bengali | ||||||||||
| King of Portugal | |||||||||||
• 1528-1557 | John III (first) | ||||||||||
• 1656-1666 | Afonso VI (last) | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Imperialism | ||||||||||
• Permission from the Bengal Sultanate | 1528 | ||||||||||
| 1666 | |||||||||||
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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]
- ^ Rahman 2010, p. 24.
- ^ Bhaduri 2013, p. 22.
- ^ Trudy & Salkin 1994, p. 188.
- ^ Eaton 1996, p. 235.
- ^ Dasgupta 2005, p. 258.