where isThe south -eastern side of Samatata lies the present day coastal region
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Answer:
ittagong (Xatigan in Portuguese),[1] the second largest city and main port of Bangladesh, was home to a thriving trading post of the Portuguese Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries.[2] The Portuguese first arrived in Chittagong around 1528[3] and left in 1666[4] after the Mughal conquest.[5] It was the first European colonial enclave in the historic region of Bengal.[6]
Explanation:
Where man and nature have formed from time immemorial a dialectical balance of unity. Jungles - the Sundarbans - skirt the waves of the sea _ _the Bay of Bengal. A unique habitat of animals this district also provides one of the best sites where nature’s botanical excellence could flourish. Archaeologists found Diamond Harbour, Baruipur, Mathurapur, Kultali etc. as areas where relics of ancient culture are available in plenty. Kakdwip immortalized by Tebhaga peasant uprisings overlooks Sagar where the Ganga Sagar Mela takes place every year. Housing Kapil Muni’s Ashram it is one of the first ten pilgrimage sites of Hinduism. Shady trees, lush green paddy fields, ancient monuments, varieties of temples, masjids and churches and a population-mix of the most wide range this district is struggling to life from the sublimity of its culture of the vivacity of modernism, from a secular integration of national purposes to the best specimen of unity in diversity that West Bengal and at large India cerie.
Brief History
The district of South Twenty Four Parganas derives its name from the number of parganas comprised in the Zamindari (Land Lordship) of Calcutta(modern Kolkata), which was ceded to East India Company in 1757 by the then Nawab (King) of Bengal Mir Jafar. On the 20th December 1757, Nawab Mir Jafar, made an agreement with the East India Company regarding the Zamindari or landholder’s right over a tract of country known as the Zamindari of Calcutta or as the Twenty Four Parganas Zamindari from the number of parganas including in it. The names of such parganas were :
(1) Akbarpur
(2) Amirpur
(3) Azimabad
(4) Balia
(5) Baridhati
(6) Basandhair
(7) Calcutta
(8) Dokhin Sagar
(9) Garh
(10) Hathiagarh
(11) Ikhtiarpur
(12) Kharijuri
(13) Khaspur
(14) Maidanmal (or Mednimall)
(15) Magura
(16) Manpur
(17) Mayda
(18) Munragacha
(19) Paikan
(20) Pechakuli
(21) Satal
(22) Shahnagar
(23) Shahpur, and
(24) Uttar Pargana.