The etymology of Chittagong is uncertain. One explanation credits the first Arab traders for shatt ghangh (Arabic: شط غنغ) where shatt means "delta" and ghangh stood for the Ganges. The Arakanese chronicle that a king named Tsu-la-taing Tsandaya (Sula Taing Chandra), after conquering Bengal, set up a stone pillar as a trophy/memorial at the place since called Tst-ta …

Historia. Chittagong alcanzó importancia con la llegada de los portugueses, para los que representó una importante ciudad portuaria. En el siglo XVIII la Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales ocupó la zona. Nominalmente seguía siendo parte del Reino de Arakán.Más tarde fue reclamada por el rey de Birmania, dando origen a la Primera guerra de Birmania en 1824.

Geography. The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), the only extensive hilly area in Bangladesh, lie in the southeastern part of the country (210 25' N to 230 45' N latitude and 910 54' E to 920 50' E longitude) bordering Myanmar on the southeast, the Indian state of Tripura on the north, Mizoram on the east and Chittagong district on the west. The area of the Chittagong Hill Tracts is …

The Chittagong Port (Bengali: চট্টগ্রাম বন্দর) is the main seaport of Bangladesh.Located in Bangladesh's port city of Chittagong and on the banks of the Karnaphuli River, the port handles over 90 percent of Bangladesh's export-import trade, and has been used by India, Nepal and Bhutan for transshipment. According to Lloyd's, it ranked as the 58th busiest container ...

History. The Chittagong Division was established in 1829 to serve as an administrative headquarters for five of Bengal's easternmost districts, with the Chittagong District serving as its headquarters. During the East Pakistan period, the division's Tippera district was renamed to Comilla District in 1960.. In 1984, fifteen districts were created by separating and reducing the …

Formal theory. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string.

Muhammad Yunus, né le 28 juin 1940 en Chittagong au Bangladesh, est un économiste et entrepreneur bangladais connu pour avoir fondé, en 1976, la première institution de microcrédit, la Grameen Bank.Surnommé le « banquier des pauvres », il reçoit le prix Nobel de la paix en 2006.

Operation Searchlight was the codename for a planned military operation carried out by the Pakistan Army in an effort to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in former East Pakistan in March 1971. Pakistan retrospectively justified the operation on the basis of anti-Bihari violence carried out en masse by the Bengalis earlier that month. ...

Most of the Bengal region lies in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, but there are highlands in its north, northeast and southeast.The Ganges Delta arises from the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers and their respective tributaries. The total area of Bengal is 232,752 km 2 —West Bengal is 88,752 km 2 (34,267 sq mi) and Bangladesh …

Rohingya (/ r oʊ ˈ ɪ n dʒ ə,-h ɪ n-,-ɪ ŋ j ə /), also known as Ruáingga (Hanifi Rohingya: ????????????????????????????????????; pronounced [rʊˈɜiɲɟə]), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Rohingya people of Rakhine State, Myanmar. It is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Bengali–Assamese branch, and is closely related to the Chittagonian language spoken in ...