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Dhaka

دكا

The capital of Bangladesh; it became capital of the Bengal region in the Mughal era in the early seventeenth century CE.

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South Asia
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The capital of Bangladesh. It became the capital of the province of Bengal in the Mughal period, in the early seventeenth century CE. 1

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Place of death of
A. K. Fazlul Huq· Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani· Fazle Hasan Abed· Hussain Muhammad Ershad· Jamilur Reza Choudhury· Kazi Nazrul Islam· Khaleda Zia· Khawaja Nazimuddin· Khwaja Abdul Ghani· Mohammad Ali Bogra· Shahabuddin Ahmed· Sheikh Mujibur Rahman· Tajuddin Ahmad· Zafrullah Chowdhury· Zainul Abedin
Burial place of
A. K. Fazlul Huq· Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy· Iajuddin Ahmed· Kazi Nazrul Islam· Khaleda Zia· Khawaja Nazimuddin· Khwaja Abdul Ghani· Khwaja Salimullah· Zainul Abedin· Ziaur Rahman
Birthplace of
Fazlur Rahman Khan· Khawaja Nazimuddin· Khwaja Abdul Ghani· Khwaja Salimullah
Home of
Jamilur Reza Choudhury· Kamal Hossain· Kazi Nazrul Islam· Muhammad Yunus· Zainul Abedin

People and things also explored

Khawaja Nazimuddin· A. K. Fazlul Huq· Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy· Khaleda Zia· Mohammad Ali Bogra· Ziaur Rahman· Ahsan Manzil· Liaquat Ali Khan

Sources

  1. GeoNames gazetteer
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Khawaja Nazimuddin

Pakistani statesman (1894–1964) of the Nawabs of Dhaka, Pakistan's second governor-general (1948–1951) and second prime minister (1951–1953). He had been prime minister of Bengal (1943–1945) and then the first chief minister of East Bengal; he succeeded Muhammad Ali Jinnah as governor-general, Liaquat Ali Khan as prime minister and A. K. Fazlul Huq as prime minister of Bengal, and was buried in the Mausoleum of Three Leaders at Dhaka.