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10-12 Hours
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5 people
Bangla
Sonargaon is considered one of the first and oldest capitals of Bengal. The historic city Sonargaon, located near the present-day capital of Dhaka, was the capital of the fifteenth-century Bengal ruler Isa Khan. On those days, travelers make their way along the 2,500 kilometer Grand Trunk Road from Peshawar in the Hindu Kush, Sonargaon marked the end of the line. The city is now a perfect place for a day-outing where one may observe the Folk-Art and Crafts Museum, Panam Nagar and other architectural monuments developed Mughal Empire. The importance of Sonargaon, originally Svarnagrama or Suvarnagrama, in ancient time is borne by the traditional holy bathing places of Langalband and Panchamighat on the west bank of the Old Brahmaputra.
The capital city of Sonargaon was situated on the northern bank of the Dhaleswari, close to the confluence of the Dhaleswari and the Sitalakshya, and also close to that of Old Brahmaputra and the Meghna. The site of the city is lying about 27 kilometers almost southeast of Dhaka city. The area now known as Panam in Sonargaon, about 2.5 kilometers to the north of the Dhaka-Chittagong highway, at Mograpara point, is said to have been the site of the capital city during the Hindu rule.
By the second quarter of the fourteenth century Sonargaon developed into a commercial metropolis; seafaring boats could easily reach Sonargaon from west Asian and southeast Asian countries. Ibn Batuta describes Sonargaon as an important port-city which had direct commercial relations with countries like China, Indonesia (Java) and the Maldives. Muslin produced in Sonargaon, especially the finest variety called khasa, had a worldwide reputation.
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