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Sonargaon of Bangladesh

Sonargaon

Sonargaon of Bangladesh
Sonargaon of Bangladesh

Sonargaon's importance in the pre-Muslim period is borne out by its ancient name of  Suvarnagrama (the golden village), from which it is obvious how the Muslim version of the name is derived,as well as by the existence of Langalbandh and Panchamighat, the two traditional under Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah, and after his fall it was the headquarters of the eastern province of Bengal under the Tughlaqs till 1338. Sonargaon emerged as the capital of an independent Sultanate under Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah (1338-1349). In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Panam Nagar was developed in a part of holy bathing places of the Hindus, in this tract of land on the west bank of the old Brahmaputra. Sonargaon rose to be the seat of an independent ruler medieval Sonargaon.
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